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Re: IEEE 802.11 WEP holes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nikita Borisov)
Tue Feb 6 14:55:39 2001
Message-Id: <200102052321.PAA07095@croissant.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 18:03:29 EST."
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To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: Jurgen Botz <jurgen@botz.org>, cryptography@c2.net, mac-crypto@vmeng.com,
dcsb@ai.mit.edu, Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
Vinnie Moscaritolo <vinnie@vmeng.com>, Paul Harrison <pth@ibuc.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:21:20 -0800
From: Nikita Borisov <nikitab@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
"R. A. Hettinga" writes:
>At 9:35 AM -0800 2/5/01, Jurgen Botz wrote:
>> Slashdot this morning reported on a ZD-Net article at:
>>
>>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2681947,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews0
>> 1
>> which states that there are major holes in IEEE 802.11 "WEP" encryption.
>>
>> Does anyone have any more details on this?
>
>http://www.vmeng.com/mc/debrief00.html, and grep for WEP, although Vinnie
>hasn't gotten the slides from Nikita Borosov yet, it looks like, but I bet
>they'll be there soon, now :-)...
More info on our findings can be found at
<http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html>
The slides from Mac Crypto (with minor edits) are at the bottom of that
web page; sorry for not sending them in earlier.
- Nikita
