dlwilson wrote:
> What is the weakness of WEP, and the likelihood that somone will
> actually crack my 128-bit WEP? I ask because several years ago I went
> to the trouble of setting up airsnort on Linux and attempting to crack
> my (at the time) 40- or 64-bit encryption. (details here:
> http://www.davewilson.cc/Wireless/Airsnort.html). I wasn't able to
> crack WEP with my ordinary network traffic; I had to set up four
> simultaneous ping sessions with very large packets, after which it
> took about 50 minutes. In actual use I don't think my network sees
> enough traffic to provide enough interesting packets to Airsnort to
> crack it. And that is with 40-bit. I have not tried it with 128-bit.

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