FBI Demonstrates WEP Cracking in Three Minutes

The feds demonstrated WEP cracking at the ISSA show. They showed how to break a 128 bit WEP key in a trivial amount of time:
After about three minutes of capturing and cracking, the FBI team found the correct WEP key, and displayed it on a projected notebook screen. Agent Bickers, still speaking to the audience, turned around, looked at the screen and was surprised, "Usually it takes five to ten minutes.
They didn't use the NSA's basement full of supercomputers for the crack, just an off-the-shelf laptop and widely available WEP cracking tools.
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By Chris on April 6, 2005 2:57 PM |