Re: Still no support for 64-bit WEP?



On Tuesday 31 January 2006 10:44 pm, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 19:51 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:50 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > I tried last evening, seems 64-bit WEP doesn't work?  Not even a
> > > warning message either!
> >
> > 64-bit passphrases?  No, not yet.  We would happily take patches,
> > though.  ;-)
>
> 40/64-bit passphrases are extremely dicey because there is no standard
> hash from passphrase to WEP key.  Most manufacturers do it differently.
> 104/128-bit ones do have a (fairly) standard way.
>
> Neal:  what hardware do you have for the access point?
>

My girlfriend has an old linksys 80211b.  Not sure of model.



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