MattSR
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YSome people (including one person on this board) have tried to claim that the Enhanced Encryption would be just as easy to 'break' as WEP encryption. The fact that the encryption data is different for each data message and superframe sent, tends to contradict that idea.
John Rayfield, Jr. CETma
Enhanced Privacy/Encryption is NOWHERE near as trivial to break as WEP. I know what the differences are and the way each message is encrypted differently - In cryptographic terms a Nonce or Initialisation Vector is added to the key before encrypting the frame which prevents time memory tradeoffs. In addition to this the first 256 bits of keystream are discarded, which also kills off all the vulnerabilities that were in WEP.
While its not trivial, 40 bit RC4 can be broken pretty easily - just no where near as easily as the half arsed WEP implementation.