"Only" 75 hours, where you have to force the victim to do make a very large number of encrypted messages. IMO, this wouldn't work when trying to break someone's SSL connection at the local Starbucks.
"Only" 75 hours, where you have to force the victim to do make a very large number of encrypted messages. IMO, this wouldn't work when trying to break someone's SSL connection at the local Starbucks.
If I had a dime for every penny of damage caused when people downplay the practicality of attacks against deployed crypto...
75 hours is enough time to attack a laptop left plugged in at the office over a 3-day weekend, and there's no reason why you'd have to attack only one laptop at a time.
The paper also says, "capturing traffic for 52 hours already proved to be sufficient", so it's not like 75 hours is some hard minimum.
Also:
"Our attack is not limited to decrypting cookies. Any data or information that is repeatedly encrypted can be recovered."
"We can break a WPA-TKIP network within an hour."
RC4 is dead, dead, dead. As with MD5, the writing's been on the wall for a while now, and attacks are only going to get better.
But if a couple guys can break something in 75 hours, knowing crypto attacks only get better, you can already consider this broken.