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Warn that hex keys are the most portable.

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Submitted by: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Pr: 40872
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Warner Losh 2002-08-12 06:59:04 +00:00
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sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
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@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ capabilities of the adaptor.
It may be specified either as a plain
string or as a string of hexadecimal digits proceeded by
.Ql 0x .
For maximum portability, hex keys are recommended;
the mapping of text keys to WEP encryption is usually driver-specific.
In particular, the Windows drivers do this mapping differently to FreeBSD.
A key may be cleared by setting it to
.Ql - .
If WEP is supported then there are at least four keys.

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usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.8
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@ -314,7 +314,11 @@ which means the key can be specified as either a 13 character text
string or 26 hex digits in addition to the formats supported by the
Silver cards.
.Pp
Note: Both 128-bit and 64-bit WEP have been broken.
For maximum portability, hex keys are recommended;
the mapping of text keys to WEP encryption is usually driver-specific.
In particular, the Windows drivers do this mapping differently to FreeBSD.
.Pp
Note: Both 128-bit and 64-bit WEP encryption have been broken.
See the
.Sx BUGS
section for details.