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Disassociation attacks

Disassociation attacks

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Disassociation attacks

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- [Narrator] Many attacks against wireless encryption require that the attacker collect information from wireless clients. Disassociation attacks speed up this time consuming process and may also be used in denial of service attacks against wireless networks. Earlier, I described how attacks against WEP and WPA require the attacker to collect information from a large number of wireless client authentication attempts. Normally once a client connects to a network, it continues to use that network for an extended period of time without reauthenticating. For example, a client might reauthenticate only once or twice every hour. On a low traffic network, this means that it can take quite a bit of time before an attacker is able to gather enough information to conduct an attack. The wifi standard provides access points with a means to immediately disconnect devices from the network. This is often used when the network detects…

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