Re: Interesting article for those of you running WAPs


Subject: Re: Interesting article for those of you running WAPs
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 17:15:09 AKST


On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 08:06, Charles Smith wrote:
> I would imagine that in your line of business you would.
> Have you ever tested your own security by using Snort to capture 5000+ packets
> and then running a program to produce a workable key? This was described
> sometime ago in a paper referencing the insecurity of the existing 128bit
> encryption at that time. It was a subject that peaked my interest at the
> time, but never took the time to actualy try it against a setup.
> I would imagine that someone by now would have come with a sort of rolling
> temp key that could be negotiated at the time of the session start after
> verifing the authentication using the time syncd server and keyfob.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> >My friends and I have maps of the all AP locations in Anchorage for a
> >couple years :-)
>
> >Dee

Indeed. I also am part of a security team for another line of work. We
use snort regularly, as well as other tools.

Dee

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