WEP Gone in 60 Seconds?
According to this article, if you rely on WEP encryption you might not be as safe as you think.
According to this article, if you rely on WEP encryption you might not be as safe as you think.
As Erik Tews, Andrei Pychkine and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann describe in a paper, they were able to reduce the number of captured packets required for a successful attack by a factor of ten. A wireless network secured with 128-bit WEP encryption can, according to the researchers, be cracked in less than a minute using their attack method. An archive can be downloaded from the working group's website, which adds the new method to the Aircrack WEP cracking program.
