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Miscellaneous => Programming & Networking => Topic started by: KernelPanic on 23 August 2002, 23:29

Title: WEP
Post by: KernelPanic on 23 August 2002, 23:29: This si most likely the wrong place to ask but..

Does anybody know anything about WEP networks. ;) ;)

[ August 23, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]
Title: WEP
Post by: voidmain on 23 August 2002, 23:51: What do you want to know about them?
Title: WEP
Post by: choasforages on 26 August 2002, 08:49: we need a networking forum too, cuase this doesn't fit into the linux forum, the lounge, or this one. all i think i know is that wep is a type of encrytion used for wireless networks. and your probably thinking, "far out man, lets go war(insert transportation of choice)ing" which, isn't hacking by the correct definatin, though it is a pretty good question, so ill let it live here, cuase i want to know a bit more about wep also
Title: WEP
Post by: TheQuirk on 30 August 2002, 02:26: description of this forum:
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Title: WEP
Post by: choasforages on 30 August 2002, 03:22: me feel like dumb ass
Title: WEP
Post by: KernelPanic on 30 August 2002, 03:34: Thats Ok, we've all felt it sometime. Like everytime I choose the wrong boot option and end up in windows grrr
Title: WEP
Post by: TheQuirk on 30 August 2002, 03:48: quote:
Originally posted by choasforages:
me feel like dumb ass

:-p
Title: WEP
Post by: shuiend on 30 August 2002, 05:13: um all i know is that WEP is a wireless encryption method. you can have 32bit through 256bit. it was made to stop people from being able to intercept your data that you send wirelessly. thats about all i know. i also know that wireless networking in linux is a major bitch
Title: WEP
Post by: trc3 on 30 August 2002, 06:35: WEP = Wired Equivalent Privacy

Well WEP is a weak encryption that has been cracked, the safest way to protect your wireless network is to use mac address control. Each ethernet card or 802.11b device has a unique id. So you get the mac address from your computer/s and you only allow comp's with those mac address to connect to your wireless router. As far as I know if you do this your 99% safe. I have my "wi-fi"[I hate that word] network setup to use both, so no other computers can connect to my router and the info sent back and forth is encrypted.

Heres a few articles about WEP:

http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html (http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html)

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~astubble/wep/wep_attack.html (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~astubble/wep/wep_attack.html)