On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:08:53PM +0200, John Angelmo wrote:
Jared Mauch wrote: In some way you are right, but still I think it's even worse to use WEP cause then the admins might think it's safe, it takes about 15 minutes to crack a wepkey, so instead of drive-by spamming you could call it drive-by, have a bagle, start spamming.
I'm not trying to fix the underlying wireless encryption option just provide a simple way that the manufacturers can ship a 'more secure' out-of-the-box-product.
The most hardware/software indipendent solution I have seen so far is the use of VPN, simply place the WLAN outside your own LAN.
Absolutely. There are a lot of things one can do: 1) enable wep 2) rotate wep keys 3) authenticate by mac-address 4) restrict dhcp to known mac-addresses 5) force utilization of vpn/ipsec client Obviously not all of these solutions are available in all cases, but in a home or small lan-environment a subset of these will increase security (even if it's reinforcing the screen door with 1/16" of balsa wood) - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.