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Cisco warns its WLAN security can be cracked !
by rrrjr Saturday 04-Oct-2003
One of the highlights of the first-ever Unstrung Live conference in New York today was the demonstration -- by a real, live hacker (albeit one on the side of the angels) -- of just how easy it is to break into Cisco Systems Inc.'s (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) wireless LAN security mechanism and gain unauthorized access to supposedly secure 802.11 networks.

read more here
»www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=41185

and here
»www.itworldcanada.com/index.cfm?···=334096

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Cisco warns its WLAN security can be cracked !

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quanta
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join:2002-05-07
Toronto, ON

Yawn

Much ado about nothing. Every encryption scheme is susceptible to brute force attacks in some way or the other.

For ultimate Wi-FI protection, one can run a 128-bit VPN tunnel; IPSec and SSL are definitely hardier crypto to crack.
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permalink · 2003-10-07 16:41:40 · Reply to this ·
lonebandit

join:2001-12-01
Oak Creek, WI

Re: Yawn

said by quanta:
Much ado about nothing. Every encryption scheme is susceptible to brute force attacks in some way or the other.

For ultimate Wi-FI protection, one can run a 128-bit VPN tunnel; IPSec and SSL are definitely hardier crypto to crack.
Just set the username to 20+ characters and the passwords to 30 characters.

I used totally random hex/decimal. Lets see how fast that gets cracked.



Jeff
permalink · 2003-10-11 13:45:18 · Print · Reply to this ·
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