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Is WPA-PSK AES safer than WPA-PSK TKIP-AES? Is WPA-PSK TKIP-AES dangerous for security?
Is WPA-PSK AES safer than WPA-PSK TKIP-AES? Is WPA-PSK TKIP-AES dangerous for security?
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Answered on Feb 27, 2022
From WPA2-PSK AES vs WPA-PSK TKIP, TKIP is vulnerable to an attack similar to the WEP "ChopChop" attack. TKIP uses MIC for guaranteeing the integrity of an encrypted frame. If more than two MIC failures are observed in a 60 second window, both the Access Point (AP) and client station shut down for 60 seconds. The newer TKIP attack uses a mechanism similar to the “chopchop” WEP attack to decode one byte at a time by using multiple replays and observing the response over the air. When a MIC failure occurs, the attacker can observe the response and waits for 60 seconds to avoid MIC countermeasures. Using the mechanism, the attacker can decode a packet at the rate of one byte per minute. Small packets like ARP frames can typically be decoded in about 15 minutes by leveraging this exploit. TKIP also includes a sequence counter that could detect if a packet is being sent out of sequence. However, with the introduction of QoS based on the WMM standard, the sequence enforcement across multiple QoS queues was relaxed for performance reasons. This creates another security flaw. Once a TKIP frame has been decoded, the attacker can use the obtained key sequence to further inject up to 15 additional arbitrary frames using different QoS queues without triggering a sequence number violation that would have lead to the injected packet being dropped.
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