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A brief history of WEP cracking

Posted by Irving Popovetsky on June 29th, 2009

Year Number of 802.11 packets required to crack WEP 2001 – 2004 5-10 million  (FMS attack) 2004 – 2007 500k (unique IVs) on average for 128-bit WEP  (Korek attack) 2007 – 2008 40k (ARP packets) using the PTW attack 2008 – Present 25k (replayed packets)  using the ARP replay and/or chopchop replay, with combined PTW+Korek [...]