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Re: WAP encryption



On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 09:47, Paul Gordon wrote:
> That's a magic number as far as WEP is concerned isn't it....
>
> IIRC 24 bits of a WEP key are always the same, and are used as an
> initialisation vector and are in the unencrypted part of the packet...
>
> Hence 128bit WEP is often referred to as 104bit, and 64bit is referred
to as
> 40bit...
>
> Not sure how (if) that helps you though.... :-(

Well, it removes the doubt from my mind that they're trying to use two
different encryption methods :-)

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Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>

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enable you to fly."




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