WPA/WPA2 TKIP Exploit: Tip of the Iceberg?

Both excitement and unease rolled through the wireless security community in November 2008 when news broke that researchers had cracked TKIP at the security convention in Japan [1, 2]. TKIP, an essential encryption component of WPA, which was heralded for years as the replacement for the broken WEP encryption to guard our wireless networks had been poked and sprung a leak for the first time.