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Re: 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Tue Feb 13 20:34:50 2001
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:10:05 -0500
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>, <cryptography@c2.net>
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 12:05 PM -0500 on 2/8/01, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
> Thus there is a need for a short term remedy that can work with the
> existing standard.
Not to pull your leg (too hard), or anything, but, we were told, at
mac-crypto, that it's called "super-encryption". ;-)
IPSec anyone?
Cheers,
RAH
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