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Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access


Wireless Networks are becoming more and more common these days and lots of people are ignoring the fact that they have to secure their wireless lan. Seth Fogie from informit estimates that about 40-50% of all wireless lan users use no protection at all for their network.

The article examines the WPA protection in detail and demonstrates how it can be cracked. The first part gives a good overview of WPA and compares it to WPE. The second part goes into detail how WPA can be cracked.




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2 Responses to “Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access”

  1. Brute force says:

    not exactly cracking is it?

    Brute force attacks are known to work on all encryptions but the quantum encryption. Isn’t it?

  2. sham says:

    hello…can i have software for wep n wpa crack ?

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