Network managers worried about the security of their wireless LANs may soon be able to sleep a little easier. The standards committee responsible for the broken wireless LAN encryption algorithm, Wired Equivalent Protocol, has approved a fix to the system which . . .
Network managers worried about the security of their wireless LANs may soon be able to sleep a little easier. The standards committee responsible for the broken wireless LAN encryption algorithm, Wired Equivalent Protocol, has approved a fix to the system which can be applied to existing equipment, according to RSA Security and Hifn, two of the companies on the committee.

The fix for the WEP encryption standard uses a technique called fast-packet keying to rapidly generate unique encryption keys for each data packet transmitted. The fix has been approved by a committee of the IEEE responsible for WEP and a clutch of other wireless LAN standards, RSA Security and Hifn said Monday.

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