On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 07:50 -0500, Jason Gurtz wrote: > On 31-Mar-05 05:28, thorsten wrote: > > > Regarding Security I can not say much, just that one: WEP is not secure, > > it just prevents your neighbour from using your Flatrate (if he dosen't > > know airsnort). I don't know how much better WPA is. > > WPA is all done too. see: 01Nov2004 post on <http://www.tinypeap.com/>.
Not quite that simple - from reading the white paper on that site, the basis of the crack is to sniff the authentication info from the network to perform a dictionary attack on the passphrase. They (probably accurately) assume most users to be using fairly poor passwords that can be attacked that way - in contrast, a reasonably long random passphrase should be secure enough. Perhaps one based on the md5sum of a file on my disk (e.g something from my music collection)... Simon.
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