Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.

Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken the attack to a new level, according to Dragos Ruiu, organizer of the PacSec security conference where the first WPA hack was demonstrated. "They took this stuff which was fairly theoretical and they've made it much more practical," he said...

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/08/26/new-attack-cracks-common-wi-fi-encryption-minute

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