The Beginning of the End of WPA-2 — Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

It has been known for a while that WPA-2 (802.11i) has some fundamental security problems, and that these have thus led to the creation of WPA-3. A core problem is around the 4-way handshake, and here is me cracking WPA-2 by listening to the handshake with just a Raspberry PI and a $10 wi-fi transceiver:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.