generating WEP keys

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Net Llama! wrote:

> 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).
> >


Nope, no magic.  And that's one of the problems with WEP and being classed 
as somewhat insecure by knowitalls and pundits.  With right tools, freely 
available, you can determine what the WEP key is.  This is a project I 
need to do to see how hard/easy that process is.


Just 13 characters.