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optigrab
November 6th, 2008, 02:14 PM
"Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/153396/

I'm not an expert by any stretch, but it seems there are a lot of caveats and a lot of information missing, so I'm not worried yet. :-\

Thoughts?

Reimer
November 6th, 2008, 07:45 PM
Hope that your wireless devices support it and switch to WPA2

TKIP was always just a temporary fix. This was expected.

Pedro
November 7th, 2008, 08:57 AM
Battered, but not broken: understanding the WPA crack (http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/wpa-cracked.ars)