Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] updated 802.11 dissector

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From: Solomon Peachy <solomon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:51:06 -0400
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:00:29PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> I could be wrong but I belive the WEP encryption is done on a per-frame
> basis
> (since the ISV is different for each fragment)
> Thus I think the dissector must be changed to do the decryption before
> reassembly of the fragments.

As mentioned in my mail to Guy Harris, you are correct.

Anyway, a new patch against current CVS is up.  It performs wep decryption
before we perform defragmentation.  

I haven't finished testing it yet, but I don't expect to find any
problems (unless the fragmentation code was already broken..)

http://www.shaftnet.org/~pizza/software/ethereal-wep.diff

 - Pizza
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