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Breaking WEP in under 60 seconds

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

It has been trivial to break WEP for years now. Automated tools using statistical attacks and traffic injection have made it easy to break WEP keys (both 108-bit and 40-bit) on average laptop or desktop hardware in a matter of hours.
Now, it is even more of a joke to break WEP. A new attack, called [...]