Input substandart wep key via AC

[pogik]

Hello, our network administrator set wep keys for our network to:

a123456789
b123456789
c123456789
d12345

this is *very* substandard configuration (at least IMHO) and Access Connections won't let me input those keys normally ...

He told me anything more, so i suppose it could be 64bit wep key with hex chars. So it should have 10 chars per key (right?) ... what do i have to add to the end of 4th key? i tried zeros, however it didn't work

[egibbs]

Well, you could call the admin, tell him you posted his lame-[censored] keys to the internet, and he has to find new ones.

But he would probably just change the "a" to "b."

Ed Gibbs

[GomJabbar]

Hello, our network administrator set wep keys for our network to:

a123456789
b123456789
c123456789
d12345

... what do i have to add to the end of 4th key? i tried zeros, however it didn't work

Hmmmm........ My guess is below.

a123456789
b123456789
c123456789
d123456789

[Kyocera]

try windows instead of AC

[cwestwater]

Found his great wee utility to generate very secure WEP/WPA codes.

http://www.soroban.co.uk/wepkeygen.htm

Highly recommended.

[pogik]

Hmmmm........ My guess is below.

a123456789
b123456789
c123456789
d123456789

hmm no, i know, that this wep key (even d12345) is correct.
It worked for me last semester, but then I reinstalled my windows and downloaded fresh updates of win and thinkpad software ... before it, I used Windows to input this key ... but now - even Win refuse to accept it ... i'm desperate. I'd really kick his [censored]

GomJabbar, my question wasn't "what my lame admin could write at the end of the 4th key", but "what do I have to write there to express "undefined" to make AC or Windows accept that key"?

[pogik]

Found his great wee utility to generate very secure WEP/WPA codes.

http://www.soroban.co.uk/wepkeygen.htm

Highly recommended.

thank you, but this won't solve my problem, which is "how to input substandard wep key to my system", not "how to generate standard wep keys"

[pogik]

try windows instead of AC

i've tried. There are two ways to input wep key directly to windows.
In both cases assuming, that wireless security is handled by windows, not AC

1) Double click on secured network, wep key prompt will appear. There is only 1 field to write it, so it's neccessary to write every wep key in there, without blank spaces or whatever (i didn't believe it - you give it with no detailed specification - so - how windows GUESS? type of wep key (open system / pre-shared key), length of it (64/128bit) and so on). Believe it or not, it worked even with my weird key. Now it doesn't
2) in Authentication properties add a new preffered network with wep key specified... but it won't let me save wep keys due to the last one.

[pogik]

theoretically - is data transfer encrypted with every of those 4 keys? because if it's not, i can input just that one key used to encrypt data and let that 4th key be blank ...

(i'm not in a network range, so i'm asking here instead of trying it)