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"Frank Vos" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> |
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Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: WEP Encryption a bad joke?? |
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Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:00:50 +0200 (CEST) |
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Hello Rick,
Like Paul already said, WPA encryption is safe. Provided your encryption keys contains only random characters, otherwise they can try a bruteforce library attack.
Kind regards,
Frank
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 02:56:05 -0700 (PDT), Rick R. wrote:
>Now that is the *first* time I've learned that WiFis encryption is pretty much useless against seriouz hack attacks.
> They never talk about that in the media or the standard literature.
> If that's the case, then how is one to protect his/her WiFi setup, other than going for a (commercial) VPN?!?
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>Frank Vos <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> Hello Rick,
>On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:42:06 -0700 (PDT), Rick R. wrote:
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>>While in the process of building a USB memory stick bootable OS/2 system I also decided to dump some Linux distro on there.
>> In the process of research I found that there are ready2write bootable USB Linux distros with modules that claim they can > hack even into 128 WEP encryption from an ordinary laptop w/o any added user intervention.
>> They gave no specifics about the time required, but state that a few captured packages would do the trick.
>> Now can that be and if so, then what is the much hailed WEP encryption actually worth???
>Not much, it can prevent accidental access to your network by your
>neighbours, but if they really want to get in they can. See
>http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=wifi2#6.2 for an explanation
>about this. WEP was designed by technicians, not by security experts.
>In the Netlabs newsletter I saw that they have WPA encryption working
>for OS/2, but they didn't release it yet. I use WPA encryption, because
>I have a Asus WL330g wireless adapter.
>
>Kind regards,
>Frank
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