>Reading the Wifi report, it seems their customers stampeded them and >demanded that the security hole be fixed, fixed a damned lot sooner >than they intended to fix it.
Which is sort of a shame, in a way. 802.11b has no pretense of media layer security. I've been thinking of that as an opportunity for folks to get smarter about network and application layer security - PPTP, IPSEC, proper authentication, etc. A lot of sites are putting their wireless access points outside the firewall and doing VPNs and the like to build secure links. If WiFi gets reasonable media layer security soon, that pressure will go away and we'll go back to media-based security. I think that's a bad thing in the long run; you end up with systems that may be somewhat secure at the gateway/firewall but are soft inside. [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . http://www.media.mit.edu/~nelson/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]