Re: [WinMac] Sysco Aeronet and Apple Airport

From: Darryl Lee (lee[at]darryl.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 13:48:38 PDT

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    On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:05:44PM -0400, Tim Scoff wrote:
    > I suspect that the problem is the Apple Airport cards only
    > support 40 bit encryption. They probably have their network
    > configured to require 128 bit encryption.
    >
    > I heard a rumor that Apple is releasing a 128 bit version of
    > the card in the near future. Supposedly it has already shipped.

    Yeah, bit-length could be a problem too, but i think they're probably
    using the proprietary Cisco security stuff.

    Of course bit-length hardly matters, now that Airsnort is out:

    http://airsnort.sourceforge.net/

    i'm running it right now, but since our wireless network is relatively
    un-busy, it'll probably be a few days before i have enough packets to
    crack the WEP key.

    Check out: http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,46187,00.html

    That's right - anybody with a laptop, Linux, and a Linksys card (and
    others will work as well), can crack into your WEP-secured wireless
    LAN. Hrm, maybe the Cisco stuff is worth 2-3 times as much. OR,
    maybe you should invest in VPN technology (which maybe you already
    have in place), and use that for your secuirity, instead of WEP.

    --Darryl

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