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MANHASSET, N.Y. - A 20-year-old undergraduate student from Rice University, Adam Stubblefield, has earned the distinction of being the first to implement a devastating new attack on the wired equivalent privacy (WEP) encryption protocol used in 802.11b wireless local area networks.
The attack, described in a recent paper by Fluhrer, Mantin & Shamir (www. crypto. coml papers/others/rc4_ksaproc.ps), is the most deadly...