[Novalug] OT: 15 minute video on how to break wireless 128 bit encryption?

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Wed May 9 18:30:49 EDT 2007


scott bearden wrote:
> I saw a similar video once and it said they could crack any connection 
> depending on the amount of traffic passing through. If you are a 
> casual surfer, it could take hours if not days. If you run P2P apps or 
> download large files it is a matter of minutes if not a couple of 
> hours. It is just a matter of sniffing out the traffic and figuring 
> out the cipher. They demonstrated it with Linux and Microsoft 
> operating systems and showed why you should never use a shared 
> connection or a hot spot.
But this is for WEP, right?  WPA is supposed to rotate the encryption 
keys or something.



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