Arnold G. Reinhold[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
It's worth remembering that the original WEP used 40 bit keys. For
some time, RC4 with 40 bit keys was the only crypto system that could
be exported without a license. It's hard for me to believe that
export concerns were not the primary
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m, Trei, Peter writes:
If I recall correctly (dee3: Can you help?) WEP is actually derived
from the encryption system used in the Apple Mobile Messaging
System, a PCMCIA paging card made for the Newton in the mid-90s.
This used 40 bit RC4.
Though only a few years
Steven M. Bellovin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
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m, Trei, Peter writes:
If I recall correctly (dee3: Can you help?) WEP is actually derived
from the encryption system used in the Apple Mobile Messaging
System, a PCMCIA paging card made for the Newton
At 7:40 AM -0800 2/11/03, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
The 40-bit issue is orthogonal to the other problems with WEP. Look at
IBM's Commercial Data Masking Facility (CDMF), a way to degrade the
strength of DES from 56 bits to 40 bits, while still ensuring that
they didn't enable any less-expensive
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Oh look, it's a brand new fluff piece on Meganet and
