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WEP Has Been Cracked Again

By Robert | April 5, 2007

Well the cat has been out of the bag for a while now that WEP encryption has been very easy to crack.� Guess what? It just got even easier.

It is no secret that WEP is still widely used by many home network admin’s� and this just proves once again why it shouldn’t be. When WEP was first cracked back in 2001 it took roughly 4 million packs of data to retrieve the security key. Not long after more hacks where discovered that could do it in a lot less time, well hours instead of days.

Now at the Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany they have managed to extract a 104-bit WEP key in a matter of seconds. This means that you could crack a WEP wireless network within the time it takes you to drive out of range.

This should be a message all people that have a wireless network and are still using WEP encryption. WPA- pre shared key is just as easy if not easer to use then WEP and is 1000% more secure. There is no excuse anymore for running WEP. WPA has been around long enough that almost all equipment will support.

For my wireless network I use WPA and I get my keys from GRC password Generator. It will give you a one off cryptographic strength password which is 100% uncrackable at this point in time.� For added security the page that you get the key from is also encrypted so you can feel safe that no one will ever know you new password.

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