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vanhoefm

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    Comment #47174389

    It indeed seems we overall agree. Even if I may not have always explicitly said 'Wi-Fi encryption' for convenience, that can be derived from context normally, though it's always ha…

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    Comment #47172552

    When testing our own Enterprise devices, VLANs were not used. This was done to understand the impact of client isolation on its own. For the university networks that we tested, I'd…

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    Comment #47172383

    That should definitely help. You still have to double-check the IP routing tables between the VLANs, but most of the time, that should prevent attacks between SSIDs.

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    Comment #47172327

    We don't have a CVE number. Whether devices/networks are affected also highly depends on the specific configuration of the device/network. This means that some might interpret some…

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    Comment #47172249

    People who use or rely on client isolation want to prevent inter-client attacks, for whatever reason. We show that this can often be broken. This can be problematic when you have o…

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    Comment #47170827

    I'm a co-author on the paper: I would personally not use the word break but instead bypass , to indeed clarify we can't just 'break' any network. We specifically target client isol…

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    Comment #47170781

    I'm a co-author on the paper: I would personally indeed not use the phrase "we can break Wi-Fi encryption", because that might be misinterpreated that we can break any Wi-Fi networ…