Re: Clarification of key terminaology.

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> 
> ASCII and hex keys go together in that one is just the opposite
> representation of the other. I believe 40-bit is 5 chars long in ASCII
> and 128-bit is 13 chars, but I could be messing that up. I have no idea
> what the passphrase one is, but it's not something I can use.
> 
>> What AP do you have?  Every consumer AP sold in the last 5 years uses WEP 
>> passphrases, not ASCII keys.  Chances are that you have encountered passphrases 
>> before, but since the WEP key situation is so confusing, you may not know it.

I don't use an AP -- I use a Lucent WaveLAN Gold card in a Debian 3 or 4
(I forget which and I'm in a fuss with Verizon at the moment and have no
DSL). Thinking back on it, it's quite possible that I just don't know
how to have Linux generate a passphrase. I don't think I've seen the
option in iwconfig, however.

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