Network World

You know you shouldn’t still be using WEP – Here’s another reason

I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? WEP has been generally recognized as broken since 2001 when Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir, commonly known as FMS, published their paper ...
EDN

Cryptography for embedded systems – Part 3: Choosing cryptographic algorithms

In the last section we discussed the potential for optimizing algorithms, which can be done, but sometimes may not result in the type of performance required. As was mentioned, you can always move the ...
New Scientist

Flaw found in common encryption program

A weakness has been discovered in a common system used to protect computer communications from eavesdroppers. The problem was found with the implementation of RC4, a program developed in 1987 which is ...
Computerworld

Don’t use WEP for Wi-Fi security, researchers say

The Wi-Fi security protocol WEP should not be relied on to protect sensitive material, according to three German security researchers who have discovered a faster way to crack it. They plan to ...
CSOonline

WEP Wireless Security Protocol Inadequate for Sensitive Data

Further flaws found in the algorithm have brought the time taken to find the key down to a matter of minutes, but that’s not necessarily fast enough to break into systems that change their security ...
Macworld

Don’t use WEP, say German security researchers

The Wi-Fi security protocol WEP should not be relied on to protect sensitive material, according to three German security researchers who have discovered a faster way to crack it. They plan to ...