Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse

Re:Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Non... by cjsuk on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:52AM (#15482306)

What about the vulnerabilities that OpenBSD notice? Works both ways. And they have an active interest in such things and have discovered as much as any famous-for-five-minutes security researcher.

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Re:Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Non... by JumpCrisscross on Monday October 16, 2017 @07:13AM (#15482389)

> [OpenBSD] have discovered as much as any famous-for-five-minutes security researcher

TL; DR OpenBSD acted rationally if they'd prefer to go it alone, which seems to be their culture. To their credit, it's worked pretty well so far. But you can't have your cake and eat it too. If they prefer a mad scramble after public disclosure, they'll get it. But they shouldn't get early notice from responsible researchers.

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Re:Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Non... by cjsuk on Monday October 16, 2017 @07:23AM (#15482423)

See my comment here. It sort of replies to this anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15482285

I don't believe that embargo is healthy or responsible! If anything its a monopolising factor.

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