wireless network

[jericho]

when a wireless network with a lock, how can we tell whether it's a wep or wpa lock?

 

[burton_o6]

wep is a 64 bit encryption...not extremely difficult to figure out the password. example: E1 F3 A1 11 E4

wpa is more complicated. alot harder to break into If it detects an attempt to break into your network it will shut the network down for 30 seconds.

 

[jericho]

oh..if wpa shut down the network for 30s does that mean the owner of the network cant use it too?

 

[jericho]

up

 

[jeckgo]

In many cases you can't easily. Much of the WNIC software reports WEP as soon as it detects encryption even though the networok is WPA encrypted.