generating WEP keys

[Net Llama!]

Excellent, that's what i was wondering.  So is ther a science to
generating 'better' keys, or are all keys created equal?

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> 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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