[GTALUG] Suggestions for stopping occasional spurious use of commercial wi-fi

James Knott james.knott at jknott.net
Sun Sep 16 15:58:39 EDT 2018


On 09/16/2018 03:33 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> On 2018-09-16 02:57 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
>> Will WPA be cracked in the future ?
>>
>> It's extremely unlikely that WPA will be cracked just like WEP was.
>
> A method of cracking WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity
> Protocol (TKIP) algorithm was found in 2009. It was reported that the
> attack does not work on WPA systems using Advanced Encryption Standard
> (AES) algorithm, or WPA2 devices. However, WPA2 was cracked as of last
> October.
>

Still, it's more effective than relying on properly placing foil.  As I
recall, there's WPA3 in the works, which should be more secure.  Then
again, I suppose they could always set up an RADIUS server.  ;-)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access#WPA3


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