Re: Intrusion possible?

> > Useless. WEP64 can be cracked in about 15 minutes of sniffing.
> >
> >
> And 128-bit wep? How secure's that?

40 bit WEP requires about 150,000 packets, 104 bit WEP requires about
500,000. It doesn't take that much longer, a few minutes to get the
extra ones and given that wepcrack can be run against the data as it's
being collected, you can keep trying and might get lucky earlier.

David.
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