A draft municipal report states 'WPA2 is broken' after offline reco…

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A draft municipal report states 'WPA2 is broken' after offline recovery of a weak guest passphrase. How should the finding be reframed?

Accepted Answer

State that the guest passphrase was weak and recoverable—not that AES-CCMP itself was cryptanalyzed — You beat a sticky-note password, not the AES engine under the hood. Say the passphrase was weak and recoverable. Do not write the headline as if WPA2's cipher suite collapsed.

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Claim the entire 802.11 standard failed because one guest SSID used a short dictionary word

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Assert that recovering any PSK proves monitor mode is a cryptographic vulnerability

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Replace the finding with a note that WPA2-Personal cannot use dictionaries under any circumstance

A draft municipal report states 'WPA2 is broken' after offline recovery of a weak guest passphrase. How should the finding be reframed?

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