MacFixIt reader Guy Kuo reports a limitation in Apple's AirPort devices that prevents proper access to Windows-based wireless networks using a WEP slot key other than "1." In essence, if the wireless ...

For a number of third party wireless access points, AirPort 3.3 (released earlier this month) will not allow entry of a WEP key in the drop-down AirPort network selection menu, forcing users to enter ...

A network security key is basically your Wi-Fi password — it's the encryption key that protects your internet. There are three different kinds of network security keys: WEP, WPA, and WPA2, each more ...

I had pretty much declared WEP dead more than two years ago, but there was some room left for aggressive dynamic WEP key rotation. Now that WPA and even WPA2 can be automatically deployed within the ...

What OS? If its XP netsh might let you change that information I'd check but I left my laptop at home today (first time in two months and I end up needing it twice).

I read that a WPA implementation in a SOHO setting doesn't require an authentication server, instead a mode called "pre-shared key" will be used. How could this be more secure than WEP, since it can ...

You’re in a client’s office or a friend’s house, and you have to get online. No problem: you just fire up your Mac, wait a couple of seconds while AirPort automatically finds any 802.11 networks ...

I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? WEP has been generally recognized as broken since 2001 when Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir, commonly known as FMS, published their paper ...

I'm working on this router here (a DLink DI614+) that has very basic 64bit (they use a short pwd) WEP security.<BR><BR>On an HP laptop (using XP's applet, not HP's) I select the correct key and type ...

As you may (or may not) be aware, Apple often includes command line versions of its applications—so for many things you can do in the GUI, you’ll find there’s a command line equivalent. Off the top of ...

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) as a wireless security solution has been analysts' wireless whipping boy for years. But, for some reason, many companies still have ...