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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:40:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe <joe@fasti.net>
To:        Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Rudy Ruiz <rudy@thummy.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sniffing WEP Encrypted traffic
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108140939200.75509-100000@gateway.fasti.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010814091425.98462.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>

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there is someone who recently cracked their encryption protocol rendering
this technology useless. It is scary since it is in use in places like
airports and such.

Joe

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Bsd Newbie wrote:

> 
> There's a big article in this week's "network world" or "info world" about
> how useless WEP is in 802.11b solutions.
> 
> You might want to suplement that as proof.
> 
> -Sameer
> 
> --- Rudy Ruiz <rudy@thummy.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a patch out there for the wi driver that will allow
> > WEP
> > encrypted traffic to be passed up the stack so Ethereal can examine it?
> > I'd
> > really like to prove to management how insecure 802.11b really is.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > rudy-at-thummy-dot-com
> > www.thummy.com
> > 
> > 
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