At 04:08 PM 3/4/00 -0500, Marcus Leech wrote:
>Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> >
> >
> > I hope the 128 bit "gold" cards use a longer IV..
> >
> > - Bill
>Does anyone know if the 128-bit variant of WEP is openly specified anywhere?
The last I heard RC4 was owned by RSA and not exactly open. But I do have a
PDF file describing Lucent's WEP implementation a layer above RC4, so it
covers some of the key management details. If you really need it, let me
know. Also you can read the encryption section of 802.11
>With the spinoff of the Enterprise portion of Lucents business, will the
> 128-bit variant quietly die? I hope not (assuming that it's any good, of
>course).
Certainly not. But as someone else mentioned, there are U.S. laws or
regulations restricting sales of 128-bit encryption overseas. So I kind of
doubt it will be enabled on the base stations in Adelaide. But I suppose
you can purchase such cards in the U.S. and they will work fine in Adelaide
with encryption turned off.
As for pricing, note that the price for the cards that will be sold in
Adelaide are in Australian dollars which are valued quite differently than
U.S. dollars.
Disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer or a crypto expert. Nor do I work in the
Wavelan division of Lucent. I'm just lamely trying to help.
