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Tuesday, August 07, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2802134,00.html Flaws Found In Key Wireless Protocol By Dennis Fisher, eWEEK A new paper reveals several weaknesses in the underlying cipher that provides security for the 802.11 wireless LAN protocol, one of which could enable an attacker to find a user's secret key in about 15 minutes. The end result of the new research, according to the authors, is that "we show RC4 is completely insecure in a common mode of operation which is used in the widely deployed WEP protocol."...
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