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Old 07-24-2006, 05:42 PM
Axel Hammerschmidt
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Default Re: Questions re WEP encryption

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

> hlexa@hotmail.com (Axel Hammerschmidt) hath wroth:
>


<snip>

> >Collecting the packets takes time.

>
> Ok, work out the numbers yourself. The average packet size is
> 256Bytes (2Kbits). The over the air data rate is 11Mbits/sec with a
> UDP throughput of about 5Mbits/sec. You claim that one needs to
> capture about 5-10 million packets of data to recover the WEP key.


So how long will it take you then, if the speed of the access point were
lowered to something like the speed of the internet access, say one
Mbit/sec? Elleven time longer?

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