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Re: DOS attack on WPA 802.11?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Dec 8 21:17:53 2002
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 17:31:51 -0800
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-reply-to: <v04210101ba153ce8d1cd@[192.168.0.3]>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
--
Arnold G. Reinhold
> Cryptographic standards should be judged on their merits, not
> on the bureaucratic difficulties in changing them. Specs have
> been amended before. Even NSA was willing to revise its
> original secure hash standard. That's why we have SHA1. If I
> am right and WPA needlessly introduces a significant denial
> of service vulnerability, then it should be fixed.
I do not think the DOS is significant, since one can do the
same thing with a spark emitter. The person doing the DOS has
to bring his equipment up to the target, which makes attacker
vulnerable to BBRS (Baseball bat restoration of service)
--digsig
James A. Donald
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