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Elan Vital: WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked


The protocol 802.11i together with the TPM and the appropriate server infrastructure prevents exactly this hack!


To do this, Tews and his co-researcher Martin Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes, according to Dragos Ruiu, the PacSec conference's organizer.

They have not, however, managed to crack the encryption keys used to secure data that goes from the PC to the router in this particular attack