generating WEP keys

[Matthew Carpenter]

Make them up...

128bit wep is broken up into two parts:
24bits of dynamic initilization vector (IV)
	These are generated by the 802.11 hardware for each frame
104bits of the key which you create.  
	This is the same for every frame transmitted using 802.11 for a given
accesspoint(AP).

MAKE IT UP!  That translates to 13 characters or 26 hex digits you have to
create.
It's as easy as that.  Configure your AP to use that WEP Key, configure
your clients to use that WEP Key and you're done (at least with the WEP
portion).


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:58:30 -0800 (PST)
Keith Morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> > I'm driving myself crazy trying to figure this out.  I've been
> > Googling for the past hour, and everyone talks about what to do with
> > WEP keys once they're generated, but no one talks about how to
> > actually generate them.  I want to generate two 128bit WEP keys, any
> > pointers?
> 
> 
> For the orinoco stuff, IIRC, it's just 13 alphanumeric characters.  
> mkpasswd, openssl, the critter that comes with freeswan's ipsec 
> (rsa-keygen?)  choose your weapon.
> 
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