[clug] Fwd: WPA2 4-way handshake client vulnerability

[Simon Oxwell]

On 19 October 2017 at 12:49, steve jenkin via linux <linux at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> [update at end]
>
> > On 17 Oct 2017, at 06:51, Chris Smart via linux <linux at lists.samba.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > https://www.krackattacks.com/
> >
>
> <SNIP>

>
> If anyone has good information on how Android kernel updates are going to
> be rolled out, I’m very interested.
>
>
> I suspect it'll be the usual - AOSP willl be updated with patches for the
kernel and wpa_supplicant  (wpa_supplicant seems to be where the real
trouble is, particularly for Linux and Android), and vendors will issue
patches for their hardware. ie, nothing much will happen unless you have a
recent flagship.


Simon