From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 1 11:23:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D6337B405 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g21JN8W07934; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:23:08 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:23:08 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Abdul Basit Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with encryption Message-ID: <20020301112308.B28665@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200202271254130431.00E9E9ED@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> <20020301021230.T6396-100000@wireless.cs.twsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gj572EiMnwbLXET9" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020301021230.T6396-100000@wireless.cs.twsu.edu>; from basit@basit.cc on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:14:40AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --gj572EiMnwbLXET9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:14:40AM -0600, Abdul Basit wrote: >=20 > if i enable WEP encryption in FreeBSD > wicontrol -e 1 > setting key by wicontrol -k dragonworld99 [1] > that will set 128 bit key .. wicontroll -T 1 > it stops pinging to my linux wireless stations. Let me guess, this is a Prism based card, right? If so, 128-bit crypto is currently broken. I'll be commiting a fix to current shortly. It should be noted that using ASCII keys is a really really bad idea. You want to use a randomly generated 104-bit number. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --gj572EiMnwbLXET9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8f9UZXY6L6fI4GtQRApt9AJ0W6bTZTXQ6ZvYNVJHINUdx8udXbQCfQzZS 9VQbu2s/9Wu9WSrV7jFgdO8= =Al/2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gj572EiMnwbLXET9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message