Airport 64-bit WEP support ?

[Kevin Callahan]

On Jan 28, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:

>
> On 29 Jan 2007, at 01:03, Rosyna wrote:
>
>> Sobbish hysteria? It often takes less than a ten minutes to crack  
>> WEP with commonly available tools. Sometimes less than a minute.  
>> It is not secure in any meaning of the word.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy#Flaws
>
> And sometimes WPA/WPA2 are not available. Sometimes WEP is all you  
> have.
>
> WEP is something you can have to stop the casual wardriver. It's  
> not going to stop the dedicated hacker and frankly, you've got more  
> to worry about if you have one of those on your tail.
>
> WEP is not meant to be "secure" in any meaning of the word. It  
> (used to) stand for Wired Equivalency Protocol (though wikipedia  
> says "Wired_Equivalent_Privacy". Do you understand that? It's to  
> give the same "security" as if you were on a wire. Are wired  
> communications secure? No, of course not.
>
> The sky is not falling.
>
> M

thanks for the help --

My student thought he'd typed in his HEX code on his iMac but  
apparently he hadn't.   After he was successfully connected, he still  
couldn't get online.  He'd at some point checked ON his "Show PPPoE  
in menu bar" -
so the iMac was looking for a PPPoE server.

Anyway, thanks for all the help.

Kevin