[Cryptography] Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping

Sidney Markowitz sidney at sidney.com
Mon Oct 16 09:41:32 EDT 2017


According to this article, a protocol level vulnerability has been found in
WPA2 that allows an attacker to eavesdrop on WPA2 protected WiFi traffic. As a
vulnerability in the protocol it potentially affects all compliant
implementations of WPA2.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping/

It links to an article by one of the researchers who found it at
https://github.com/vanhoefm/krackattacks/blob/gh-pages/index.html


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