Installation guide
Wireless Guide 135
Advanced Features for Wireless Analysis
2 Right-click in the Summary, Detail, or Hex pane to activate the 
Decode tab’s context menu.
3 Select WEP Decrypt to open the Select WEP Keys dialog box, as 
shown in Figure 10-14. 
Figure 10-14. The Select WEP Keys Dialog Box
Use the Select WEP Keys dialog box to specify the WEP keys to be 
used for decrypting the data in the selected buffer or trace file. You can 
either use the WEP keys currently defined in the 802.11 tab of the 
Options dialog box, or you can specify new keys in the fields provided.
4 To decrypt the data in the selected buffer or trace file using the WEP 
keys currently defined in the 802.11 tab of the Options dialog box, 
enable the Use Current Profile WEP Keys option. Enabling this option 
causes the other fields in the Select WEP Keys dialog box to be grayed 
out, indicating that they are unavailable.
5 To specify new WEP keys for decryption, start by setting the WEP Key 
Entry Mode option to specify whether you want to enter the keys as 
either Hex or ASCII.
6 You can enter up to four separate encryption keys. For each key, do the 
following:
Enable this option to use the 
WEP keys currently defined in 
the 802.11 tab of the Options 
dialog box.
Select whether you would like 
to enter the keys as 
Hexadecimal or ASCII 
characters.
Select the length of 
each WEP key used on 
the wireless network.
Enter each WEP key in 
the spaces provided.










