How to connect to wi-fi when WEP key is not compat...

Question

i am using the nokia 93001 communicator and i have wi fi access point in my office but iam not able to connect to the access point because the phone supports 40 or 104 bit key lenth and my office router has 64 bit key so kindly suggest how to rectify this problem

Answer 1

Encrypted wireless networks use either 40-bit or 128-bit keys. The key is conveyed in either eight-bit (ASCII) or four-bit (hexadecimal) encoding.
When using hexadecimal, each character in the final encryption key is four bits long when converted to binary.
The 26 characters of a 128-bit key add up to 104 bits. This 104-bit password is combined with a 24-bit random number, called the initialization vector, to create the 128-bit encryption key. The initialization vector is supplied with each packet of information sent and is part of the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm and 802.11b standard.
With 40-bit encryption, the 10 hexadecimal characters equal 40 bits, which are then combined with the initialization vector to create the 64-bit encryption key. In this case the 40-bit name is a misnomer; it is actually a 64-bit encryption key.
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