I have no idea how to fix this. The extension of nwepgen to 128 bits was
contributed by a user. This is the first confirmation I've received that
it doesn't work.

-M

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Leonard Ye wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If I am not wrong, WEP algorithm is platform independent. Thus, the same
> generation string should generate the same set of keys for both windows OS
> and Linux OS. However, the test I have done shows that the same set of
> keys are generated at 64 bits, but not at 128 bits. Here is the detail.
>
> Generation String: test
>
> WEP program on linux: nwepgen on 0.1.8pre11. Its document says that it
> uses algorithm from Neesus Datacom Inc.
>
> WEP program on Windows: An application provided by Neesus Datacom Inc.
>
> At bit 64, both of them generate the same set of keys.
>
> At bit 128,
>
> linux generates:
> 1b:9d:da:48:3d:94:1e:41:48:d0:91:b3:cd
> f0:63:e3:8d:00:86:c9:31:55:05:13:3b:b7
> 97:6d:3d:c6:74:00:48:96:67:38:a8:9d:24
> cb:ce:cf:dd:f7:8e:07:10:0b:8b:a9:a3:28
>
> windows generates:
> Key 1: 9f:df:3b:fd:fb:10:af:eb:09:25:ef:96:05
> (the application only generates 1 key at 128-bit)
>
> Any hints here?
>
> Regards,
> Leonard Ye
>
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