[LMB] OLPC-XO1 OT:

Franz Tomasek (Home) ftomasek at storm.co.za
Thu May 1 08:24:41 BST 2008


Salve

On 30/04/08 
   at 08:35 PM, Mark Allums <mark at allums.com> said:

>WEP?   Aieeeee!!!!!  Surely you mean WPA don't you?   WEP can be cracked 
>in about 5 minutes, now.  WPA takes a whole day.  The best bet is WPA2, 

No argument on WEP. IIRC the FBI demonstrated a three minute crack of WEP.
(Here's a report from 2005:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/24251/100/)

As far as I am aware the only ways to crack WPA involve dictionary or
brute force attacks, so if you pick a strong passphrase it will take a lot
longer than a day to crack.
(http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30278/98/)

Vale
Franz



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