WPA2 security in trouble as Belgian boffins tease key reinstallation bug
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/16/wpa2_inscure_krackattack/
A promo for the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery security conference has set infosec types all a-Twitter over the apparent cryptographic death of the WPA2 authentication scheme widely used to secure WiFi connections.
The authors of the paper have everything ready except the details of their disclosure: acceptance at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) for their paper Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2, a timeslot (during the afternoon of Wednesday, November 1), a so-far-empty GitHub repository, and a placeholder Website at krackattacks.com.