Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 07:48, J Sloan said:
>   
>> Actually, I was able, after several trials, to get knetworkmanager to
>> connect to the wireless access points. I had to make some guesses (for
>> instance, where kde says "40 bit key" it really means 64 bits) and it was
>> less intuitive than the gnome version, but I must admit that it was
>> possible after all to connect.
>>     
>
> We are going to change the "40 bit" label since it's caused plenty of 
> confusion.  What you call a 64 bit key is a 40 bit key with 24 bits of 
> padding, likewise the 104 bit key is aka 128 bit encryption, and when we 
> wrote knetworkmanager we just took the IEEE802.11 internal names for the 
> encryption types.
>   

Ah, and I was wondering if you guys were just using hexadecimal to
confuse us -

Joe
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