Cracking Thin Air

Mr. Bryan Klingner

IEEE Communications Society Technology Chair
Austin, TX

Thursday, November 15th, 6:30 PM, ENS 127

Abstract

This talk is an overview of of the RC4 stream cipher, some of it's weaknesses, and the cracking of the Wireless Equivalency Protocol. The speaker will have live demonstrations of a WEP key being cracked as well as lots of wireless hardware and software for everyone to play with.

A list of Telecommunications and Signal Processing Seminars is available at from the ECE department Web pages under "Seminars". The Web address for the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Seminars is http://signal.ece.utexas.edu/seminars