[ale] About Wireless Connectivity

Joe jknapka at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 28 22:29:36 EST 2003


Stuffed Crust <pizza at shaftnet.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:35:05AM -0700, Joe wrote:
> > Re. WEP: Google for "airsnort" and "WEPcrack". These tools, among others,
> > permit WEP keys to be cracked in a matter of minutes on a busy network.
> 
> And it's alwo worth mentioning that every current product I've seen
> filters out the known weak classes of IVs, which makes cracking WEP
> brute-force once again. 

Really? I wasn't aware of that. Does "current" mean last week, or
last year? How could I tell if my NICs and AP are doing IV
filtering?

Thanks,

-- Joe Knapka
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