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Here’s what you can do to protect yourself from the KRACK WiFi vulnerability

• westurner 9y ago
  > But first, let’s clarify what an attacker can and cannot do using the KRACK vulnerability. The attacker can intercept some of the traffic between your device and your router. Attackers can’t obtain your Wi-Fi password using this vulnerability. They can just look at your traffic. It’s like sharing the same WiFi network in a coffee shop or airport. From reading the articles: https://www.krackattacks.com/ https://www.krackattacks.com/ ( https://github.com/vanhoefm/krackattacks https://github.com/vanhoefm/krackattacks ; which is watch-able ) > Against these encryption protocols, nonce reuse enables an adversary to not only decrypt, but also to forge and inject packets. https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/228519 https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/228519 > Key reuse facilitates arbitrary packet decryption and injection, TCP connection hijacking, HTTP content injection, or the replay of unicast, broadcast, and multicast frames.