On Jan 10, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
Some brands of equipment will let you use a passphrase to set up 128-bit WEP, others require the full frontal hexadecimal code word. Some devices will do the translation from passphrase to hex. Some won't. Some software requires the hexadecimal password to be preceded by 0x when you type it in, some requires some other character, some wants none. Its sort of a mess.
Then there's the variations on how a passphrase is turned into a hex code. It seems to me that this should be standardized, but when I last had to work at getting wireless working (Ubuntu took all the "fun" out of it and just made it all work for me), what I typed in my linux box yielded a different hex key than what my Linksys router would give me.
WEP is a disaster, but these days it's the token security that keeps you out of legal hot water.
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