From: "Rick R." Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 329029 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:42:20 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GJPCl-000O9V-Fp for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:42:11 -0400 Received: from web60618.mail.yahoo.com ([209.73.178.186]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with smtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GJPCl-0002Uy-Dz for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:42:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 47088 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Sep 2006 06:42:06 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=uHHqG2vhv23NM2QPdqDsqTES+i+e4+XxUT2xHf8S3rUKY9lQkEk2H60pU/T85dhSk7gpOkHcDTKkuB27qn3wlyJbsqyW2kY+6KhqcPzIAOmFlym0uwsM6T95pXiFwmdp8exd4toKVMiZiMBmCCFjrrgfSyR0B6ACAzncnj0q1+M= ; Message-ID: <20060902064206.47086.qmail@web60618.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [208.252.246.35] by web60618.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:42:06 PDT Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [OS2Wireless]WEP Encryption a bad joke?? To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-362692798-1157179326=:46818" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -1.7 (-) --0-362692798-1157179326=:46818 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit While in the process of building a USB memory stick bootable OS/2 system I also decided to dump some Linux distro on there. In the process of research I found that there are ready2write bootable USB Linux distros with modules that claim they can hack even into 128 WEP encryption from an ordinary laptop w/o any added user intervention. They gave no specifics about the time required, but state that a few captured packages would do the trick. Now can that be and if so, then what is the much hailed WEP encryption actually worth??? --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. --0-362692798-1157179326=:46818 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
While in the process of building a USB memory stick bootable OS/2 system I also decided to dump some Linux distro on there.
In the process of research I found that there are ready2write bootable USB Linux distros with modules that claim they can hack even into 128 WEP encryption from an ordinary laptop w/o any added user intervention.
They gave no specifics about the time required, but state that a few captured packages would do the trick.
Now can that be and if so, then what is the much hailed WEP encryption actually worth???

Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. --0-362692798-1157179326=:46818--