From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 4 13:13:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 13:13:10 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F7E37B400; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB4LD9q06142; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB4LD8T74224; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:13:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Sender: nsayer@sftw.com Message-ID: <3A2C08E4.E0CA5057@sftw.com> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:13:08 -0800 From: Nick Sayer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > [...] > > 0 == bronze > 40 == silver > 128 == gold FWIW, it is more correct to say either 0 == bronze 40 == silver 104 == gold or 0 == bronze 64 == silver 128 == gold WEP has a 24 bit sequence number that perturbs the encryption. The fact that 24 bit sequence numbers can be run through on a busy LAN might make one wish to institute weekly key changes before bothering to go up to 128 bit encryption (that, and the fact that the front door to your house probably has a lot fewer than 40 bits of security). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message