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studentsupport
October 10th, 2008, 01:15 PM
Hello,
I got a question regarding converting ASCII to WEP key.
The first way is simply converting ASCII to HEX:
UBUNTU - 75:62:75:6E:74:75
Another is making of a 64 bit WEP key of any length of ASCII expression:
UBUNTU - E69959C009
reference: http://www.wepkey.com/

The question itself: why there is several ways of converting ASCII to WEP? Could anyone explain the second way of conversion and if it is one-way or E69959C009 key could be recursively converted to UBUNTU?
Thank you

hyper_ch
October 10th, 2008, 01:44 PM
if you want security you do not want to use WEP. This can be cracked in a matter of minutes. Go for WPA or WPA2

studentsupport
October 10th, 2008, 01:47 PM
if you want security you do not want to use WEP. This can be cracked in a matter of minutes. Go for WPA or WPA2

I know its not secure, I am just interested in the ways of conversion.