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WPA broken even further

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Nov 8 16:37:35 2008

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:16:35 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <1225948477.19060.46.camel@localhost>

WPA was known from the beginning to be vulnerable to offline dictionary 
attack, for which the workaround was to use a key that is not human 
memorable.

Now WPA is cracked even with a strong key:
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/153396/.html>

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