'KRACK' Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Compromises Encrypted Connections

[Lucian Armasu]

A Belgium researcher discovered that Wi-Fi keys can be installed more than once on devices, which attackers could use to decrypt a large portion of Wi-Fi traffic. The attackers could also fully decrypt connections on Android 6+ and Linux devices.

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[Rob1C]

How is this 'better' than Fluxion (or other methods)?

Both are quick, this resets your password to a know value on the client and allows MitM whereas Fluxion obtains the Router's password which you can reuse to reconnect in the future (assuming it's not changed often).

Thanks.