Bug 909 – posible enhancements for entering wireless network encryption options

Bug 909 - posible enhancements for entering wireless network encryption options

Summary:

posible enhancements for entering wireless network encryption options

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Product:	SB 2/3
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Wireless
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	All All

Importance:	P5 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Blackketter Dean

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Reported:	2005-03-01 17:11 UTC by Kevin Pearsall
Modified:	2008-12-18 11:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Kevin Pearsall 2005-03-01 17:11:25 UTC

would be nice if we could support text WEP passwords.  For example the
encryption menu could have the following options:

40/64-bit WEP encryption (Hex Key)
  128-bit WEP encryption (Hex key)
40/64-bit WEP encryption (Text Password)
  128-bit WEP encryption (Text Password)
 WPA Personal encryption (Private Shared Key)

Comment 1 Vidur Apparao 2005-03-10 14:23:04 UTC

One issue is that the Airport config software uses a different algorithm to go
from text password to hex key. Other vendors seem to be more consistent (using MD5).

Comment 2 Kevin Pearsall 2005-03-21 10:43:27 UTC

given that, this would probably be a very worthless enhancement.  it would
create more harm than good...