WPA Cracked In 60 Seconds

September 17th, 2009
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Categories: General, Internet

If you have a wireless access point router at home, most of us do, you might want to review your wireless setup. It’s a well-known fact that WEP is insecure. Most of us, are now using WPA. I hope you are. But, don’t get too comfortable. Now, security experts are saying that WPA encryption can be cracked in less than a minute. The Temporal Key Integrity Protocol or TKIP algorithm is the culprit. If you have a wireless router, first, make sure you are not using WEP. Second, when you do use WPA, make sure you don’t use WPA TKIP. Use WPA AES or the new WPA2 settings. Article.

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