It’s been long known that WEP is a very insecure wireless encryption protocol, and this is due to weak Initialization Vectors (IV) being used within. See, the engineers that designed the WEP protocol attempted to create a stronger encryption by adding a 24 bit IV to the cypher key that changes constantly, thus “eliminates” the repeated encryption of data with the same key over an over. The problem is, these IV’s are too short, and are periodically reused… which means that if we can sniff enough data over the air, and get the AP to reuse IV’s eventually, we can figure out the key. ...

So, since I recently wiped my ESXi box and installed CentOS 5.3 on it instead, I went with Zimbra for my e-mail solution, with LDAP authentication, and I have to say so far it works amazing… but e-mail push is a feature i’ll be missing on my phone… I found the solution to be something called Funambol. It is similar to what BES is for Exchange or Notes. It provides a sync interface for end devices into Zimbra, or Exchange, or others. I’ve been spending the weekend configuring Funambol and Zimbra to see each other, and my phone to sync with it. ...