On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:40:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Adam,
> Its an IEEE Standard - you might try their site - www.ieee.org.
> WEP is getting incorporated into a lot of IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN card
> but it's a pretty weak (40-byte) encryption scheme.
Well... Actually, yes and no. Yes it's incredibly weak and busted
but that also includes the 128 bit encryption as well. There's been a
paper published on it and the IEEE committee should just hang their heads
in shame and GO HOME.
It's subject to a vast array of known plaintext attacks, XOR attacks,
initialization vector collisions and other dain bramaged failures that
a decent cryptographer should have spotted. The crypto is strong but
the specification and implimentation is lame beyond all believe. The
comments from the authors was that WEP (Wire Equivalent Privacy) wasn't.
They were making an understatement.
> -- Bill Stackpole, CISSP
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> itDoes anyone know anything about the Wireless Encrypted Protocol?
> What is the standard?
> I can't find anything out there about it.
> AJ
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