Thanks for your response. P Dean E. wrote: > At 05:46 PM 1/24/2004, you wrote: > >> Howdy ... it's been awhile. Hope all has been going well. >> >> I am hoping someone can help me with this question: >> >> I have a wireless network that is encrypted (64bit) and the >> encryption is generated by a passkey. I recently purchased another >> access point to put on the network -- a D-Link DWL-800AP. It does not >> have the ability to generate encryption using a passkey. Instead, one >> must make up the codes for each of the four keys. I don't know what >> characters my passkey would translate into. Is there some kind of >> table I can access somewhere that would tell lme that? >> >> By the way ... it is probably evident from the way in which I am >> posing the above question that I am not an expert on this stuff. >> >> Thanks anyone for help you can give. >> >> Patrick > > > > Make a new one. Rotating that key is an important security > precaution, and I would advise you to increase your encryption > strength to 128bit (aka 104bit) if at all possible. > > If you are too lazy to make them yourself you can connect via SSL to > https://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/wepgen/index.php and get some > random numbers, if you are trusting. > > -Dean > > > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> Minnesota >> http://www.tcwug.org >> tcwug-list at tcwug.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > > > -- > dean at ripperd.com > http://www.ripperd.com > Carpe Diem! > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list