Japanese researchers crack WPA encryption in 60 seconds
Japanese researchers claim to have found a way to break the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption system used in wireless routers in just 60 seconds. Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University plan to explain their method at a technical conference on 25 September in Hiroshima.
The attack potentially gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA encryption system. The fact that WPA could be broken has been known for some months, but the researchers have exploited a theoretical attack and made it practical.
