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Subject: Re: Advice: 128 bit wep and Prism chipset 
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In message: <20031002155001.4881A5D07@ptavv.es.net>
            "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