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Fluhrer, Martin and Shamir Attack

Fluhrer, Martin and Shamir Attack is a vulnerability discovered in WEP by Fluhrer, Martin and Shamir: when data is encrypted before transmission, a piece of data called the initialization vector (IV) is added to the secret key. The IV is tranmitted in the clear, which can be used to recover the entire key.

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Fluhrer, Martin and Shamir Attack