Quote of the Day

[Greg Rose]

I just found the following wonderful quote in the just out draft IEEE 
802.11i document that defines security for wireless networks. In particular 
this is the section that describes the old WEP.

>Editor's note: the text in this section essentially duplicates the text 
>from the 1999 issue of the standard, suitably renumbered and with minor 
>wordsmithing to remove technically inaccurate non-normative marketing 
>language ascribing useful security characteristics to WEP. Given today's 
>better understanding of WEP, much of this marketing text would be 
>tantamount to fraud if it were to remain in the standard.

I like it...

Greg.


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