turned on WPA but network stumbler says WEP?!

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On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:37:36 GMT, "peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>I have a belkin 802.11g wireless router. I turned on WPA on both the router
>and my laptop (has built-in 802.11b wireless not made by belkin) and it
>works fine.
>
>However, when I put network stumbler on a different laptop, it says the
>router is using WEP. What gives?

WPA is nothing more than WEP encryption, with a much improved group
key exchange mechanism, and 802.1x RADIUS authentication added. If
you're just looking at the encrypted data packets floating by, WEP and
WPA look exactly the same RC4 cipher stream. When the new an improved
802.11i encryption standard eventually becomes available, the
encryption will change to AES which will hopefully be recognizeable by
Netstumbler.



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