WEP

[KernelPanic]

This si most likely the wrong place to ask but..

Does anybody know anything about WEP networks.

[ August 23, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]

[voidmain]

What do you want to know about them?

[choasforages]

we need a networking forum too, cuase this doesn't fit into the linux forum, the lounge, or this one. all i think i know is that wep is a type of encrytion used for wireless networks. and your probably thinking, "far out man, lets go war(insert transportation of choice)ing" which, isn't hacking by the correct definatin, though it is a pretty good question, so ill let it live here, cuase i want to know a bit more about wep also

[TheQuirk]

description of this forum:

quote:
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[choasforages]

me feel like dumb ass

[KernelPanic]

Thats Ok, we've all felt it sometime. Like everytime I choose the wrong boot option and end up in windows grrr

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
me feel like dumb ass

:-p

[shuiend]

um all i know is that WEP is a wireless encryption method. you can have 32bit through 256bit. it was made to stop people from being able to intercept your data that you send wirelessly. thats about all i know. i also know that wireless networking in linux is a major bitch

[trc3]

WEP = Wired Equivalent Privacy

Well WEP is a weak encryption that has been cracked, the safest way to protect your wireless network is to use mac address control.  Each ethernet card or 802.11b device has a unique id.  So you get the mac address from your computer/s and you only allow comp's with those mac address to connect to your wireless router.  As far as I know if you do this your 99% safe.  I have my "wi-fi"[I hate that word] network setup to use both, so no other computers can connect to my router and the info sent back and forth is encrypted.


Heres a few articles about WEP:

http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~astubble/wep/wep_attack.html