From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [72.254.40.151] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.84.143.187]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 394071 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:58:01 -0400 Message-ID: <451C99C1.70707@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:57:53 -0700 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]104-bit WEP Key References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/28/06 10:32 am, Hakan thus wrote : > I recently came across a situation with a router that required a > 104-bit WEP key. I was told the router was a "travel" router, not > being capable of 128-bit WEP encryption. I could not get it to work > using the assigned shorter key with eCS in 128-bit encryption mode. > > If my information -- which I consider reliable -- is correct, can we > have 104-bit encryption added? > > 104-bit is indeed 128-bit (there is a 24-bit header, hence, 40-bit encryption is called 64-bit). There is no such animal as 80-bit (plus a 24-bit header). :-) (Hopefully, my auto-responder won't bounce to the list...) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------