Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] decrypting wireless frames

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:05:46 -0700
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:11:15AM -0400, Joshua Wright wrote:
> I too have been unsuccessful in getting Ethereal to present decrypted
> 802.11 frames when given the correct WEP key information.  I haven't
> tracked down why it's not working yet,

If the WEP keys weren't set in your Ethereal preferences file (i.e., you
didn't set them and save them), and you entered the WEP keys after
Ethereal started, this might be the problem:

	http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200306/msg00192.html

"It parses the WEP key only once" means "it parses the WEP keys only
when it starts up".  I've checked in his fix, so the current CVS version
of Ethereal (if you build from CVS) has the fix, and the next release
will have it as well.