Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:49:57 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM <tforrest@server1.shellworld.net> Cc: Ian Cartwright <ian351c@yahoo.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgear MA401 and WEP Message-ID: <200109201749.f8KHnvR19310@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:07:55 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109200707230.40326-100000@server1.shellworld.net>
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> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:07:55 -0500 (CDT) > From: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM <tforrest@server1.shellworld.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > Why do you want to bother with WEP? It takes all of about 15 minutes to > crack WEP. 15 minutes? Airsnort is certainly faster than that on my net. Maybe it's just my keys. But WEP is still better than clear, if not much. I'm sure the wireless forum (WiFi) is hard at work on this, but WEP was a crappy encryption algorithm from the start. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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