On Jun 7, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Howard Winter wrote:

> The FBI recently demonstrated the cracking of a
> WiFi 128-bit "WEP" code from the air, within *three minutes*!

There are bugs in WEP.  I believe they don't so much crack the 
encryption
as figure out a way to derive the key from messages containing too much
constant data, or something like that...  (so it's more like Enigma's
"poor operating practices" than actual code breaking.)

BillW
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