[CLUE-Tech] WEP security?

[Tom Poindexter]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:04:43AM -0700, Dave Hahn wrote:
> IIRC AirSnort is supposed to be able to break WEP keys after watching
> about 5 minutes of traffic.  WEP is awful.  New chipsets are supporting
> the 256-bit WEP, not sure if that makes it much better, but.....

Cisco is addressing some of WEP problems with their LEAP system, including
dynamic WEP keys, per-packet Initialiation Vectors (IV), etc.  

Check out:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao350ap/prodlit/1281_pp.htm

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Tom Poindexter
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