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Re: DOS attack on WPA 802.11?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Ferguson)
Sun Dec 8 13:26:26 2002

Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:59:50 +0100
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
From: Niels Ferguson <niels@ferguson.net>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04210101ba1352e12def@[192.168.0.3]>

At 01:38 04/12/02 -0500, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
>At 12:48 AM +0100 11/30/02, Niels Ferguson wrote:
>>
>>There will be a stronger variant of WPA: The TGi AES-based protocol. It
>>just isn't finished yet.
>>
>
>Is this 802.11i or something that will be available sooner?

TGi is working on it. How and when it will be put into general use depends
mostly on politics, and that is something I cannot predict.

Niels
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