December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
210 pages
4h 31m
English
"Disregard mountains. Acquire empires" | ||
| --Hannibal (probably) | ||
This chapter discusses the recently identified KRACK vulnerabilities and explores the current state of the tools that enable the identification of vulnerable devices. This chapter is a deep dive into the inner workings of the WPA2 handshake and is recommended for advanced readers.
KRACK stands for Key Reinstallation AttaCKs. It's a tranche of vulnerabilities publicly disclosed in October 2017 by a team from KU Leuven. The attack is the exploitation of a fundamental flaw in the WPA2 handshake, allowing resending of a stage of the handshake in order to overwrite cryptographic data. This chapter will cover the attack at a theoretical level ...
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