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RE: Help add strong crypto to AirPorts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Jun 14 18:25:58 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 05:36:41 -0700
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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To: Lenny Foner <foner@media.mit.edu>
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"Cryptography@C2. Net" <cryptography@c2.net>
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Please do let me know how to enter a 128 bit WEP key into the MacOS driver.
Or any key for that matter, since AFAICT the MacOS drivers don't let you
enter raw WEP keys at all, only a passphrase which then is hashed down to a
64 bit key using an Apple proprietary algorithm. In addition, I would love
to hear about a source for 128 bit AirPort cards, since the iBook and iMac
won't accept standard Lucent WaveLAN PCMCIA cards.
Thanks,
--Lucky
--Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lenny Foner [mailto:foner@media.mit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 00:24
> To: shamrock@cypherpunks.to
> Cc: cypherpunks@openpgp.net; cryptography@c2.net; foner@media.mit.edu
> Subject: Help add strong crypto to AirPorts
>
>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:22:33 -0700
> From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
>
> Apple is taking a customer survey which features to add to the next
> generation Apple AirPort (IEEE 802.11). The current version
> only does weak
> crypto. You can cast your vote for strong crypto here:
>
> http://survey.apple.com/AirPort/
>
> ...although it's certainly handy that Apple's using standard WaveLAN
> cards, and hence you can swap in Gold cards and it'll Just Work ('cept
> for some configuration issues if you've -only- got a Mac). See
> http://www.msrl.com/airport-gold/ for more details.
>
> Of course, Apple should just ship strong crypto anyway. Not only is
> it safer for their users, but it saves having to essentially buy and
> throw away the Silver card that comes with this. And it would thus
> sure be nice if their configuration software understood 128-bit keys
> as well.
>
> [It'd also be nice if you could roam w/out requiring them to be
> bridged, but that's not exactly a crypto-related issue...]
>
> P.S. So does configuration software for 802.11 cards typically make
> it possible for users to reliably get 128 bits of entropy with which
> to generate the keys? After all, it doesn't do you much good to have
> long keys if whatever's generating them isn't very random. What are
> people's experiences with this?
>
