Encryption Question

[Bernard Michael Tyers]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the 2 main (it seems) encryption standards 
on 802.

My question is regarding cards using different encryption schemes 
talking to each other.

I am interested in buying a Orinnoco Silver card. Reading up on the 
specs of the card, I see that it uses 64 bit WEP. I also came across the 
spec for the Gold card and it uses 128 bit RC4 encryption.

Now to my question (it may be frivolous <sp?>). Can these two cards 
communicate to each other?

Is it neseccasry for the access point to be able to handle both WEP 
(which I would guess most of them can already) and 128 bit RC4?
Are you resrticted to using only Orinnoco hardware for this reason?

thanks in advance,
Bernard

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Bernard Tyers * Research Assistant * National Centre for Sensor Research
* P:353-1-700-5273 * E: bernard.tyers at dcu.ie * L:N117

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