WiFi Security: Gone in 60 Seconds
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Without repetition, hesitation or deviation WPA WiFi Encryption has been cracked wide open - in just a minute. Yep, Japanese researchers at Hiroshima and Kobe universities have reportedly managed to break the WPA encryption found on wireless routers in less than 60 seconds.
Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University will be explaining all to an eager audience in Hiroshima at a technical conference towards the end of September. It is, I am led to believe, the first time that previously purely theoretical WPA hacking techniques have been moved into the seriously practical realm. So whereas previous WPA attacks have been able to crack a relatively small set of routers, and took an admittedly still rather worryingly quick 15 minutes or so, the new method is said to be far more wide reaching and a whole heap quicker despite it using a similar approach in targeting the TKIP algorithm.
As far as I am aware, both WPA2 and AES remain safe from the techniques involved.
I have to admit that I am not entirely surprised by the new claims, only surprised that it has taken so long to destroy the integrity of what was only ever meant to be a stop gap encryption measure. Anyone serious about securing their WiFi networks would surely have moved to WPA2 yonks ago and dumped WPA with TKIP at the earliest opportunity. Indeed, it has been some three years now since all WiFi certified products have been required to support WPA2 so it is no new thing. Heck, it’s even relatively simple to step up from TKIP to AES on a lot of older WPA only routers. Mind you, even WPA2 encryption has come under attack recently with a Russian security company claiming it can crack WPA2 passwords quickly with a little help from NVIDIA graphics cards.
The full report “A Practical Message Falsification Attack on WPA” regarding the latest WPA attack methodology can be found here.
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