Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:38:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/wicontrol wicontrol.8 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010810103701.19412M-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200108100355.f7A3t6133271@harmony.village.org>
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My understanding is, by the way, that further progress has been made in breaking WEP since that original paper. I haven't verified this, but I heard a comment in a security presentation earlier this week that, although in theory the average is several million packets, in practice it's two reboots. The reason is that the IV is reset each time the card powers up, so rather than getting random distribution over the IV space, you're repeating iteration across the same space all the time. So the chances of IV re-use are very high if the card is power-cycled, or the machine. I haven't followed this discsion closely, so can't confirm this is the case. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20010810131923.I38896@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: > : Agreed. WEP can discourage casual crackers. > > WEP is massively insecure. It does discourage the extremely lazy, but > the industrious will plow through it rather quickly... > > As a project, we don't enourage people to rely on things that are > insecure, hence the warning. If you know what you are doing, you can > ignore the warning, just like with plain old passwords in clear text > for telnet. > > Wanrer > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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