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Submission + - New improvements on the attacks on WPA/TKIP

olahau writes: Two weeks ago, improvements to the previously reported attack on WPA/TKIP, were presented at the NorSec Conference in Oslo, Norway. In their paper coined "An Improved Attack on TKIP", Finn Michael Halvorsen and Olav Haugen describes the improvements, which enables an attacker to inject larger maliciously crafted packets into a WPA/TKIP protected network, thus opening the probabilities for new and more sophisticated attacks against the well established wireless security protocol.

Comment Limited range? (Score 1, Informative) 264

Reading along here, I came to wonder what would happen if someone block the light source such that it is no longer visible? Would the signal then be completely lost? My previous experiences with light is that they struggle to travel through walls... Wouldn't this limit the utility value and application areas of such a system?

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