WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN Brute Force Vulnerability

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Actual paper[1] from the author's blog post[2].

[1]: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf

[2]: https://sviehb.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setu...

And previously discussed already here (albeit with a ~misleading~ title):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3401888

A problem is that it might not be possible to disable WPS on some routers yet, for example Linksys routers: http://superuser.com/questions/374624/how-do-i-configure-my-...

Anyone from Cisco know? Or have the equipment/effort able to verify this claim: That "Manual" switch only affects the GUI, if you look at the beacon (with some WiFi Analyzer) you will notice that WPS is still enabled.

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