James R. Scott

12 April 2007

7) WPA

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:38 pm

If our network turned out to use WPA, we’re in luck - our network is already relatively secure provided we have used a good password to generate the WPA PSK (pairwise master key). How difficult is it to get the password if we used a poor password though?

Our network is still subject to dictionary attacks (a brute force method) so if we have not chosen an appropriate password, our security can still be breached.

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  1. There are reports emerging that WPA with TKIP (not AES) has been partially cracked - the crack is not yet public however
    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/11/wpa_cracked.html

    Comment by James — 11 November 2008 @ 2:20 pm

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