[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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