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Re:Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Non... by brango on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:34AM (#15481942)
Or if combined with some other vulnerabilities...
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Re:Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Non... by gcp on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:55AM (#15482041)
Somewhat pointless remark as WPA only protects up to the access point. Any vulnerability after that has wider implications regardless of the WPA status.
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Re:Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Non... by TheAdamAndChe on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:04AM (#15482079)
It's not really pointless. MiTM attacks become much easier to accomplish with something like sslstrip once access to the network is gained.
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