[kwlug-disc] Firesheep: Open WiFi cookie stealing for the masses ...
Khalid Baheyeldin
kb at 2bits.com
Wed Nov 3 12:40:06 EDT 2010
To answer the original question on whether moving from no encryption/no
password to WPA/WPA2 ...
This comments says that it is very unlikely that Firesheep will affect WPA
networks, even with a shared key.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1851220&cid=34106546
More specifically, it quotes this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i-2004#The_Four-Way_Handshake
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
2bits.com, Inc.
http://2bits.com
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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