Thanks for your response.

P

Dean E. wrote:

> At 05:46 PM 1/24/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Howdy ... it's been awhile. Hope all has been going well.
>>
>> I am hoping someone can help me with this question:
>>
>> I have a wireless network that is encrypted (64bit) and the 
>> encryption is generated by a passkey. I recently purchased another 
>> access point to put on the network -- a D-Link DWL-800AP. It does not 
>> have the ability to generate encryption using a passkey. Instead, one 
>> must make up the codes for each of the four keys. I don't know what 
>> characters my passkey would translate into. Is there some kind of 
>> table I can access somewhere that would tell lme that?
>>
>> By the way ... it is probably evident from the way in which I am 
>> posing the above question that I am not an expert on this stuff.
>>
>> Thanks anyone for help you can give.
>>
>> Patrick
>
>
>
> Make a new one.  Rotating that key is an important security 
> precaution, and I would advise you to increase your encryption 
> strength to 128bit (aka 104bit) if at all possible.
>
> If you are too lazy to make them yourself you can connect via SSL to 
> https://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/wepgen/index.php and get some 
> random numbers, if you are trusting.
>
> -Dean
>
>
>
>
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