On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 15:11 -0500, James M. Leddy wrote: > Derek Atkins wrote: > > <snip> > > In the former case you do need to make > > sure that the AP is set up for a password, and you'd better hope that > > the AP uses the same string-to-key as NM. > </snip> > Isn't that standardized?
WEP ASCII passphrases are standardized, WEP104 passphrases are de-facto standard (some implemented hashing for 40-bit WEP keys, but that's not really standardized at all), and Apple uses a completely different hashing scheme for it's "password". So no, WEP doesn't have a standardized passphrase->key hashing scheme. That's why you get 3 choices. WPA fixed this, where there is a standard for hashing a passphrase into a key, _plus_ they made it easy to differentiate a passphrase and a hex key, which is great because you can't do this with WEP, leading to people using what _look_ like hex keys as actual WEP passphrases. Dan > > But in the latter cases, you're > > just defining a key directly. The only difference is whether you're > > supplying the key in hex or via the ascii character codes. E.g., to > > enter a hex 'digit' of 41 you could just enter an ascii "A". This does > > not require any special configuration on the AP, because you could use > > 'AAAAA' and '4141414141' interchangably in NM. > > > > > >> Dan > >> > > > > -derek > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
