October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 33m
English
The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) standard was the first security standard to be developed in conjunction with the 802.11 standards. First deployed in 1999 alongside the first widely adopted iteration of 802.11, WEP was designed to provide the same amount of security that was found on wired networks. This was accomplished using a combination of RC4 ciphers to provide confidentiality and the use of the CRC32 for integrity.
Authenticating to a WEP network is done through the use of either a 64- or 128-bit key. The 64-bit key is derived by entering a series of 10 hexadecimal characters. These initial 40 bits are combined with a 24-bit Initialization Vector (IV), which forms the RC4 encryption key. For the ...
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