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New WPA attack – updated

Introduction

Back in November of 2008 I wrote about the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) attack by the German graduate students Erik Tews and Martin Beck. They discovered a limited method to crack WPA, or more specifically, to crack the

My Catalyst conference presentation

Many enterprises are considering Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ 802.11n draft 2.0 deployment because it has significant advantages over existing wireless technologies. However, these advantages present the enterprise network manager with important deployment considerations. At the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst Conference in July, I will examine the various deployment considerations for 802.11n in [...]

My FinSec08 conference slides

On December 3, 2008 I presented a talk entitled “Maintaining security as you upgrade to 802.11n” at the FinSec 2008 conference. My slides are available here (4.4 MB).

WPA Hack

Erik Tews

German graduate students Erik Tews and Martin Beck discovered a limited method to crack WPA, or more specifically, to crack the