____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:08:04 -0500 (EST) From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us> To: cryptography@c2.net Subject: 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) attacks as reported on Good Morning Silicon Valley: Researchers from UC Berkeley and private security firm Zero-Knowledge Systems have uncovered a means of disrupting the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm, an important part of the 802.11 corporate standard for wireless computer networks. While data transmitted over these networks is encrypted, the researchers determined that it was easy to modify 802.11 equipment to pillage that data. http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html