Re: XP shows only 8 characters of (WEP) Network key.

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 04/06/05 

Date: 6 Apr 2005 20:04:27 GMT

In article <42543f3b$0$40775$dbd4f001@news.wanadoo.nl>,
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
: Me? Worry? :-) But seriously: I would just like to know why this (8
:displayed characters versus 13 entered characters) happens, especially
:because I know that it did not use to happen.

I don't know about "used to happen", but -generally- speaking,
it is more secure to display a fixed number of mark characters than
a number that varies with the actual key length. If one displays
a number corresponding to the key length, then even without
having revealed any byte of the key, one has noticably cut down on
the search space -- no point in searching anything that does not
match that particular length. 

-- 
Are we *there* yet??

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