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Anatomy of a cryptoglitch - Apple's iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50 seconds

Anatomy of a cryptoglitch - Apple's iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50 seconds | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
If you use your iPhone or iPad as a Wi-Fi hotspot, don't let it generate the passphrase for you.

A posse of German computer scientists has found that Apple's iOS passphrase generator may give yo...

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Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords

Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

 

 

 

Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of 'default' passwords, researchers at a German university have found that

 

 

 

===> they are able to break these passwords in under a minute. <===

 

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