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From: William Josephson <wkj@eecs.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 versus CORBA?
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In-Reply-To: <200109250212.WAA19584@augusta.math.psu.edu>; from cross@math.psu.edu on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:12:11PM -0400
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:32:25 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:12:11PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> >doesn't the crypto suck?
>
> Yeah, but I'm not sure that's Lucent's fault.  btw- it's not so
> much the crypto itself (unlike DVD), as the implementation of
> the crypto.

Somewhat more precisely, WEP is based on alleged RC4, but suffers from
poor handling of the initialization vectors.  A recent paper by Shamir
et al. gives a practical online, known plaintext only attack.

 -WJ