WEP is Still Broken Even With Chaffing

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For many years now we’ve know that WEP is broken and more recently a new attack have revealed it to be very broken indeed with sub one minute cracking being demonstrated.

Some vendors have proposed a technique known as “Chaffing” as a way to fix WEP. This excellent presentation from DefCon15 informs us of the truth!

WEP is broken and it will remains broken so don’t be using it ever, ever. Instead use WPA or WPA2 with a good quality passphrase being used when the personal versions (pre-shared key) are implemented.

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