Talk:Wired Equivalent Privacy

message: The fact that you have to pay for access to the reference, lessens its value as a reference and I think should be changed in favour of some other source.
178.167.236.5 (talk) 22:30, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  IEEE Reference 

message: The article doesn't mention the paper Unsafe at any key size; An analysis of the WEP encapsulation submitted to the IEEE 802.11 working group (?) by Jesse Walker. The paper seems to predate the Fluhrer/Martin/Shamir attack (Oct 2000 vs. 2001) and claims to describe easily implemented, practical attacks against WEP that succeed regardless of the key size or the cipher. Can anybody familiar with this literature judge the merits of this? Grr82 (talk) 05:00, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paper preceding Fluhrer/Martin/Shamir 

message: Although it may be true, it doesn't look appropriate to begin the article with a statement about WEP's inadequacies. The page is written as though the author has a particular dislike of the subject, and should be presented with a more matter-of-fact tone. 207.224.78.217 (talk) 06:42, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally agreed, especuially with the more harsh criticisms you removed. But I restored some of the detail about being superseded by WPA and the IEEE referring to it is deprecated. Seems germane. --Errant (chat!) 09:51, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right there (possibly I went a bit far in redacting). I'm glad the relevant detail isn't in the first paragraph anymore, save for the word 'deprecated'. --Christopher (talk) 11:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed that word, missed it first time :) You're right, there is no real substance to defining it as deprecated as the third word of the article :P --Errant (chat!) 11:29, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: I think the alternative name(s) need to be clarified.  I have always known this as WEP with properly knowing what the name actually is.  However I have seen/heard "wired" and "wireless" both used for the "W", seen/heard both "equivalent" and "encryption" used for the "E", and only seen "protocol" for the "P" (until I found this article).  Perhaps a section on this should be added listing the other seven combinations:
*Wired Equivalent Protocol
*Wired Encryption Privacy
*Wired Encryption Protocol
*Wireless Equivalent Privacy
*Wireless Equivalent Protocol
*Wireless Encryption Privacy
*Wireless Encryption Protocol
Astronaut (talk) 12:43, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name 

message: Is it worth mentioning Nintendo's use of WEP for Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection? The newer Nintendo DSi can connect to the internet using WPA security, but the older Nintendo DS and many games even on the DSi require use of WEP. The recently released Pokemon Black and White games require WEP-based security in order to enable the "mystery gift" that can be downloaded to the game. From the Nintendo support page -- "Nintendo DS games with online play still require the use of WEP or no security to connect with the Nintendo WFC."
Encouraging home users to cripple or entirely disable their wireless security seems irresponsible. Thoughts?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yggyk (talk • contribs) 03:28, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage by Nintendo 

message: "The access point can then be used to decrypt these packets and relay them on to a buddy on the Internet, allowing real-time decryption of WEP traffic within a minute of eavesdropping the first packet."
Is "Buddy" a technical term?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hazmog (talk • contribs) 09:39, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, 12 years after your question I can report that it probably refers to the buddy-ng tool from the aircrack-ng suite, a kind of "companion" tool to easside-ng that performs some actions on a WEP access point: not the clearest term out of context. I am currently working on that page and may do some work on it when I have more time. Kind regards, IrrationalBeing (talk) 21:42, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word buddy 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello everyone, I am currently working on the aircrack-ng page, which includes a history of WEP. When I am done, I will move to this page, which may benefit from a rewrite. In the meantime, if anyone wants to import some data from the aircrack-ng article, feel free. I took care of linking (mostly) academic sources and am also working on a timeline. Regards, IrrationalBeing (talk) 11:21, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  aircrack-ng