[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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