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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:21:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: Bug: 2.6.32 ath5k, associating with WEP128 AP is unreliable
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>,
	Don Darling <darling.don@gmail.com>,
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 11:39 AM, Bob Copeland wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Don Darling<darling.don@gmail.com>
>> ?wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm assuming this issue is related to the ath5k driver itself -- the
>>> network
>>> I'm using is only WEP128, and doesn't need wpa_supplicant.
>>
>> Huh, I didn't think any mac80211 driver supported WEP 128. ?Are you sure
>> you
>> weren't using madwifi before? ?Or maybe WEP 104?
>
> For the record, WEP104 and WEP128 are the same thing. The smaller number
> makes it explicit that the 24-bit IV is transmitted in the open. The same
> thing applies to WEP40 and WEP64.
>
> Larry
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Only one problem there is another, nonstandard WEP type where the
actual key is 128-bit, and this is also sometimes referred to as
WEP128 (with the same metric as WEP64, this one would be WEP152). Same
goes for "WEP228/WEP256/WEP280".

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