From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 6:40:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.fasti.net (gateway.fasti.net [216.138.206.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DD537B408 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 06:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@fasti.net) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by gateway.fasti.net (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7EDe2o76718; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:40:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from joe@fasti.net) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:40:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe To: Bsd Newbie Cc: Rudy Ruiz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sniffing WEP Encrypted traffic In-Reply-To: <20010814091425.98462.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message