Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:16:16 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: oberman@es.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice: 128 bit wep and Prism chipset Message-ID: <20031003.001616.29963360.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20031002155001.4881A5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <freebsd@faruk.net> <20031002155001.4881A5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
: I believe that
: some cards allow the specification of all 128 bits, but this is not
: common.)
no. The cards that do 128 or 192 or 256 bits really have 24 bits less
of static key. It is a feature of wep that the other 24 bits are
specified on a per packet basis.
Warner
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