WEP key encryption

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 20:59:51 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-10 at 14:41 -0400, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> Dear list readers - 
> 
> I have been searching for an answer through the forums and googling
> some, but haven't found a definitive answer. My query is, can Ubuntu
> (Gutsy Gibbon) store the wireless WEP key encrypted? And if so, what
> file is that found in? I need to setup a users laptop to connect to our
> wireless network, but am prohibited from doing so if I am unable to
> store the WEP key encrypted.

Considering WEP is so badly broken these days storing a password for it
in the clear is pretty much inconsequential.  Hopefully WPA was
considered as an option?  

Brian  
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