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| author | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-12 06:59:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-12 06:59:04 +0000 |
| commit | d8f2e345b92a3c8dd415a95d3ee77396020917bb (patch) | |
| tree | 09a261c43d0f58e83590b305f0511e7cfdbe774b /usr.sbin/wicontrol | |
| parent | 3d6ade3a036cbe4f65cf7325a4dbb8f842860505 (diff) | |
Warn that hex keys are the most portable.
Submitted by: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Pr: 40872
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=101714
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/wicontrol')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 b/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 index c1e49103421b..260b3933009e 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8 @@ -314,7 +314,11 @@ which means the key can be specified as either a 13 character text string or 26 hex digits in addition to the formats supported by the Silver cards. .Pp -Note: Both 128-bit and 64-bit WEP have been broken. +For maximum portability, hex keys are recommended; +the mapping of text keys to WEP encryption is usually driver-specific. +In particular, the Windows drivers do this mapping differently to FreeBSD. +.Pp +Note: Both 128-bit and 64-bit WEP encryption have been broken. See the .Sx BUGS section for details. |