[oclug] Wiretap equivelent privacy.

Charles MacDonald cmacd at telecomottawa.net
Tue Apr 5 10:23:31 EDT 2005


> "At a recent ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) meeting in 
> Los Angeles, a team of FBI agents demonstrated current WEP-cracking 
> techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes."
> 

YEP, that is why they call it Wiretap equivalent privacy. in security 
circles.  It is just a strong enough lock that you can possibly show 
that their was probably intent to break in.



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