[Long Rant] Re: Encryption Question

[Dominick, David]

I am not even sure you can still buy 40 Bit cards anymore. I know I haven't
seen one from any of my vendors in about a year.
There are several ways to break WEP. Only 1 or 2 end in you ever getting or
needing the Key. WEP is stream cipher, so pretend this is the Matrix... the
trick is to realize there is no key.


-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Hanley [mailto:sjh at wibble.net]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:27 PM
To: wireless at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Long Rant] Re: Encryption Question


On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:40:35PM -0400, Dominick, David wrote:
> I am sorry, but I am not sure where you get your information. That is
wrong.
> The encryption is irrelevant to the way we break WEP. The Initialization
> Vector is 24 bit period. that does not change based on encryption size. 

Okay so the key can be obtained irrelevant of the hardware you use, however
I
would assume, and so did Alex I guess, that if you easily want to
subsequently
read all data going over the wireless network using 128 bit encryption, you
need a card that supports 128 bit encryption, if you  have obtained the key
bit do not have a card that supports it how easy is it to use that key to
read
the traffic on the network?

        See You
            Steve

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