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Re: [OT] Breaking WPA2 by forcing nonce reuse



On Mon 16 Oct 2017 at 15:42:09 +0000, Curt wrote:

> https://www.krackattacks.com/
> 
>  Our attack is especially catastrophic against version 2.4 and above of
>  wpa_supplicant, a Wi-Fi client commonly used on Linux. Here, the client will
>  install an all-zero encryption key instead of reinstalling the real key. 
> 
> Uh-oh.

Not particularly off-topic but not particularly useful in itself
either. We suppose there is probably an intention to advise Debian
users on what to do about this and how to go about mitigating it.
That would be real, valuable information.

-- 
Brian.


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