News: Vendor aims to 'cloak' WEP
Category:
Networking
Posted: April 2, 2007 08:47PM
Author:
Nemo
NetworkWorld - New software from AirDefense is designed to protect a widely used but flawed wireless LAN encryption protocol. The software “cloaks” the encryption key used to scramble WLAN data packets by means of the Wired Equivalent Privacy protocol. WEP was defined in the IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard, and is part of every 802.11-based device.
