I want to say thanks for the info. It was insightful.
William
--- Ian Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> wrote:
> 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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