A security mechanism suitable for wireless local area networks is disclosed that exhibits a reasonable trade-off between computation speed and resistance to attack. The illustrative embodiment can be implemented with operations that are quickly performed on most processors, and, therefore be in many cases reasonably implemented in software. The illustrative embodiment comprises modulo 2 additions, modulo 2.sup.B additions, bit rotations, and byte transpositions.

 
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