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Re: Wireless Pent-Test


From: Cedric Blancher <blancher () cartel-securite fr>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:10:36 +0200

Le mar 07/10/2003 à 11:00, Raistlin a écrit :
WEP (RC4, in fact) can be cracked, AND it also suffers from weak
initialization vectors.

This could be understood as "RC4 could be cracked", implying RC4 is
weak, which is not true when used properly. WEP can be cracked because
because it make a quite poor use of RC4.

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