WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) has been the workhorse of 802.11 a/b/g security for years. A new paper from researchers at Darmstadt University of Technology may put an end to all that. It suggests that a new method for breaking a WEP key has emerged that can compromise the network in less than a minute. It also promises tools that will allow "walk through" cracking in less the ten minutes, rendering WEP security unreliable for most purposes. Of course, this isn't the first time WEP's demise has been predicted: other techniques and analysis have shown significant vulnerabilities several times in the last two years. IT managers will want to carefully analyze the issues, especially as they consider wireless convergence [1] in telephony systems.

For more on WEP vulnerabilities:
- Read the whole article [2] at eWeek