Excellent, that's what i was wondering. So is ther a science to generating 'better' keys, or are all keys created equal?
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Make them up... > > 128bit wep is broken up into two parts: > 24bits of dynamic initilization vector (IV) > These are generated by the 802.11 hardware for each frame > 104bits of the key which you create. > This is the same for every frame transmitted using 802.11 for a given > accesspoint(AP). > > MAKE IT UP! That translates to 13 characters or 26 hex digits you have to > create. > It's as easy as that. Configure your AP to use that WEP Key, configure > your clients to use that WEP Key and you're done (at least with the WEP > portion). > > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:58:30 -0800 (PST) > Keith Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Net Llama! wrote: > > > > > I'm driving myself crazy trying to figure this out. I've been > > > Googling for the past hour, and everyone talks about what to do with > > > WEP keys once they're generated, but no one talks about how to > > > actually generate them. I want to generate two 128bit WEP keys, any > > > pointers? > > > > > > For the orinoco stuff, IIRC, it's just 13 alphanumeric characters. > > mkpasswd, openssl, the critter that comes with freeswan's ipsec > > (rsa-keygen?) choose your weapon. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
