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I wondered why the deauth in step 1 works, it sure looks like that's one of the shortcomings in WPA and there is just no workaround - except going with WPA2. h

I wondered why the deauth in step 1 works, it sure looks like that's one of the shortcomings in WPA and there is just no workaround - except going with WPA2. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20219/preventing-deauthentication-attacks http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20219/preventing...

willidiots 12y ago
It'll work against WPA2 as well, the link you provided is confusingly worded. There's currently no technical way of preventing deauth attacks as 802.11 management frames are always unencrypted / unsigned. 802.11w aims to address this by authenticating management frames but is slow in coming to market and plagued with interop issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11w-2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11w-2009