Paper 2007/471

Attacks on the WEP protocol

Erik Tews

Abstract

WEP is a protocol for securing wireless networks. In the past years, many attacks on WEP have been published, totally breaking WEP’s security. This thesis summarizes all major attacks on WEP. Additionally a new attack, the PTW attack, is introduced, which was partially developed by the author of this document. Some advanced versions of the PTW attack which are more suiteable in certain environments are described as well. Currently, the PTW attack is fastest publicly known key recovery attack against WEP protected networks.

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Applications
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
WEPRC4PTWcryptanalysisKoreKKleinaircrack
Contact author(s)
e_tews @ cdc informatik tu-darmstadt de
History
2007-12-19: revised
2007-12-19: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2007/471
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/471,
      author = {Erik Tews},
      title = {Attacks on the WEP protocol},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2007/471},
      year = {2007},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/471}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/471}
}
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