Re: [SLUG] WEP key generator.

From: Ian Blenke (icblenke@nks.net)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 12:36:34 EST


Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, William Coulter wrote:
>
>> If I am using wireless access should I be using WEP to help in
>> securing the access. If not, then
>> what should I use? What do you use to create the key? I am just
>> curious.

If you can, I strongly recommend using WPA2 with AES (DES is for teh
suck) and TKIP (key rotation).

And to answer the next question: no, I haven't used Xsupplicant for
anything more than WPA. All of my fiddling with WPA2 has been with
DD-WRT and WRT54Gs (and broadcom's supplicant) and OS/X and WindowsXP
(make sure you have the WPA2 patch applied).

Security is all about raising the bar. At the moment, I haven't seen any
WPA2 exploits. This will undoubtably change at some point.

WEP is arguably better than no security at all... (it's really a false
sense of security, but it does keep the door-rattlers and stupid
neighbors out).

The alternative is to open up your WDS meshed network to everyone, put
in a nocatsplash legal warning, and tunnel all of your traffic over a
encrypted session to the internet gateway so your traffic is "secure".

-- 
- Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>


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