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      Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

      A legacy method of security defined in the original IEEE 802.11 standard in 1997.

      A legacy method of security defined in the original IEEE 802.11 standard in 1997. Used the RC4 cipher like TKIP (WPA), but implemented it poorly. WEP is deprecated and should no longer be used.