WPA-PSK, NT and NTLM passwords have all long been known to be vulnerable to dictionary attacks that try every possible set of words that compose a password.
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New security measures will be included with some Wi-Fi products this year, though they'll carry an extra label with the words "Wireless Protected Access, " or WPA. When the 802.11i standard is finished, we're told that WPA-compliant products will be upgradeable to support the new standard.
Yet a neo-WPA would still focus on upgrading and expanding our basic infrastructure, which, by all estimates, is generally in sad shape.
But before that approval, the Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry consortium that promotes Wi-Fi technology, previously adopted most of the features already assumed to be part of the 802.11i standard and built them into a temporary set of enhancements that it called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) which is available on most newer Wi-Fi access points.
One possible function for a modern WPA would be to go to neighborhoods--particularly poor and working class ones--and insulate houses.
When on a password-secure Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) point, messages sent to and from unprotected websites are safer, but not as safe as when sites enable security on their end, experts say.
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In November a pair of German computer science students made a critical first step toward cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard, or WPA, once heralded as the solution to WEP's insecurity.
America's post-war boom owed much to the work of WPA, CCC and other New Deal programs.
Rather than worry about the generally clueless Republicans, the administration should focus on building a legacy as real and long-lasting as the one left behind by the WPA and CCC.
Another flaw in the design of many consumer routers with built-in WiFi access points is that they still support WiFi Protected Access (WPA).
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