Wired Equivalent Privacy

From Citizendium
Revision as of 01:29, 8 February 2010 by imported>Sandy Harris (New page: The '''Wired Equivalent Privacy''' or '''WEP''' protocol is a security system used in wireless networking. WEP generates keys for different connections by concatenating a connection-speci...)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The Wired Equivalent Privacy or WEP protocol is a security system used in wireless networking.

WEP generates keys for different connections by concatenating a connection-specific intialisation value with another secret value, and this creates a vulnerability. It can be broken by a related key attack. See for example, "Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds"[1].

References

  1. Erik Tews, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann and Andrei Pyshkin (2007). Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds.