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Help add strong crypto to AirPorts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lenny Foner)
Fri Jun 16 00:21:42 2000
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:25:12 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200006151925.PAA21642@out-of-band.media.mit.edu>
From: Lenny Foner <foner@media.mit.edu>
To: shamrock@cypherpunks.to
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: <NDBBIFGOKODBCKDGJDKLKEDJECAA.shamrock@cypherpunks.to> (message
from Lucky Green on Wed, 14 Jun 2000 05:36:41 -0700)
Cc: foner@media.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 05:36:41 -0700
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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.
Yes---my comments were only useful you're planning on using the
Airport for talking to things that -aren't- Apples. If you're
actually planning on using it with other Apple devices, you're
stuck, as far as I know. And I certainly didn't mean to defuse
the thrust of the argument---go fill out the survey and let
Apple know you want better crypto!
