September 03, 2009, 8:25 AM — Reading the headlines the past few days on Slashdot, and other sites, you would think the world was ending. "WPA IS BROKEN," "JUST LIKE WEP," are a few of the headlines I've seen.
You can also see a Slashdot article reading "WPA Encryption Cracked in Under 60 Seconds!"
From these articles you would believe that WPA is SERIOUSLY flawed allowing an attacker to CRACK the encryption and ultimately read your sensitive data, get your TKIP key, and own everything on your wireless network. Unfortunately, this is one whopper of media hype. A great article REALLY explaining the vulnerability can be found here: http://wifinetnews.com/.
Ultimately no keys are cracked, no encryption is "broken", and you're ultimately a little less safe then you used to be with TKIP. The vulnerability was actually introduced last year, and was just improved on by the Japanese researchers.
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