Dynamic WEP key on wired network

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:16:29PM +0200, Paul-Henri Gauzence de Lastours wrote:

> I would like to encrypt data on my wired Ethernet network, and for this I
> need to activate the dynamic Wep key exchange with 802.1x authentication.

How exactly would be encrypting data here? WEP is only defined in IEEE
802.11 (i.e., for wireless networks) and it should not really be used
for any new purpose due to major security problems.

> But I've read in the configuration file for wpa_supplicant that on a wired
> configuration, the activation of dynamic Wep key will prevent the
> authentication process from being successfull. Isn't there any way for
> exchanging dynamic keys on a wired configuation ?

Sure there is, but something would need to specify how the key is to be
derived and what mechanism would be used to encrypt the data packets.
Before those parts are resolved, there is not much point in trying to
get wpa_supplicant to do something.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA