That is correct. It's design goal was to provide security equivalent to a unsecured "wired" line. Nothing more than that. No enhanced or additional security exists in the original IEEE specs for WEP.
At 02:56 PM 6/26/02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >pardon me, but wep does not work "as designed", unless you are >claiming its design goal was to not provide any real security over >non-wep. > >wep is a better example of "the failure of the standards process" >than of "works as designed". > >wep's inexcusable flaw is that 40 bit wep provides the same level of >security as 128 bit wep due to the reuse of the rapid reuse of the >keystream of a stream cipher. > >i entirely expect that manufacturers who made claims that 128 bit wep >provided enhanced or additional security will be the subject of class >actions in the next few years. (at first they were wrong, but at some >point, they were just lying to consumers.) > > >On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:42:24AM -1000, Paul C. Lawler wrote: > > I know that at least 4 of them offer additional security (read, more than > > WEP) on top of wireless. > > > > As you probably know, WEP (wired equivalency protocol) was only designed > > to make 802.11 "as" secure as a wired connection, which is of course, not > > very secure. > > > > WEP works "as designed," but most wireless providers understand the need > > for "real" security in addition to WEP. > > > > At 12:48 PM 6/26/02 -0700, you wrote: > > >* plawler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >>Boingo, WiFiMetro, Wayport, iPass, T-Mobile (just to name the big ones). > > > > > >they may do wireless, but those aren't security companies > > > > > >-- > > >NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > > >Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > > >Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > -- > > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
