more..Encryption systems used by wireless routers have had a long history of security problems. The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) system was cracked and rendered effectively pointless within a few years of its introduction in 1997. Now, it looks like its WPA successor may soon suffer the same fate, with a pair of Japanese researchers developing a way to break it in just one minute.
Aaron Nice post. You think they will ever make wifi encryption bulletproof?
More reason for wireless users to upgrade their security to WPA-2 if their devices support it.
No encryption will be full proof for ever.
Development eventually catches up with it.
By the time the Japanese finished their crack,
we will all switch to WPA3 and off we go again buying new routers.
By the way:
NSA have a supercomputer that cracks all known internet encryptions used to date in a matter of seconds, to a maximum of 15 minutes.
They screen all internet traffic around the globe 24hrs a day.
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Upgraded BT HomeHub2 to WPA2, thanks for the heads up airbot
This may be Tews. I knew he's doing something!The attack builds on the so-called "Becks-Tews method"
Some implementations of WPA supports AES too (I'm not referring to WPA2). So no, I wouldn't say WPA is cracked. It makes more sense to say TKIP is cracked, but even this is not really the case (broken maybe, but not cracked).Both attacks work on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. They aren't key-recovery attacks
I try to take a 'reasonable' approach to 'security'. Take my house for example, (please DON'T take my house!). If I wanted a completely secure, break-in proof house, there would be no openings large enough for anyone to enter, no doors or windows, all solid. But then even I could not get in or out, so what would be the point? Yes, I lock my doors at night before going to bed, but any strong person could kick the door frame right off the wall. After all, there is only a little striker plate and two screws securing the door to the wall. The glass windows break easily. So why lock doors and windows? If you make it hard enough (although not impossible) for someone to break-in, they will go somewhere else, where it is easier. And with computers, there is a huge supply of easy targets. So I try not to stress over security, but I do lock the doors.
Robert
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