A paper written by a security expert claims the new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security standard may be less secure, in certain scenarios, than the wireless standard it was designed to replace. . .
A paper written by a security expert claims the new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security standard may be less secure, in certain scenarios, than the wireless standard it was designed to replace.

In the paper, "Weakness in Passphrase Choice in WPA Interface," Robert Moskowitz, a senior technical director at ICSA Labs, part of TruSecure, describes a number of problems with the new WPA standard, including the ability of attackers to "sniff" critical information from wireless traffic and to discover the value of a wireless network's security key.

WPA is a new security standard based on work by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) on the 802.11i wireless security standard. WPA is intended to replace Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the most common standard for securing data on wireless networks.

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