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t1n0m3n

join:2003-10-16
Oklahoma City, OK


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May 11th, @03:07AM

reply to rusty1989
Re: Question about MAC Filtering

Hmm, interesting.

Speaking on purely academic terms (I have not tried this) I think that (unless dampened) this AP could be easily broken.

Even if this AP is not used, the attacker could generate his own traffic to cause IV generation. But first... the MAC address. How difficult would it be create a program to scan ALL mac addresses? "Not very" I would imagine since a MAC address is 12 characters long and each character only has 16 combinations.

So the attacker scans the network with all MAC addresses, finds a valid mac address (because it associated) and then starts generating traffic to break the IV.

I think you are better off buying a non wireless router.
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