Re: [PLUG] Cafe Latte attack (WEP)

[Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com>]

On Saturday 03 November 2007, fljohnson3@isp.com wrote:
> That said-that WEP was long ago declared deader than disco, and WPA/WPA2
> is the putative norm these days, was the presentation near the top of this
> thread merely a "one more reason WPA/WPA2 is the rational-and therefore
> normal-way to do wireless" piece, or intended to inform us that most of
> the outfits that outfit themselves with wireless are waaaay behind
> reality?

Unfortunately, the usual industry shenanigans are on full display when it 
comes to "wireless security".  Just like it was decided to rename their old 
USB 1.1 parts "USB 2.0 High-Speed", it was decided to make several different 
things called "WPA", only one of which is actually secure.  Naturally, it's 
the least common, which probably has to do with the fact that it's more 
expensive to implement.

And Linux users are in even more trouble, since instead of putting AES chips 
in their wireless cards, you can bet manufacturers willl try to offload the 
work onto the CPU using binary-blob firmwares and other nonsense.

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