Will- I'm glad you highlighted this article. I knew WPA was on the way
down, but I didn't realize it would be so fast. We don't really use
wireless anymore at the office, but it would be nice to have it when we
want it. I wonder if our WAP supports WPA2 (as Terry mentioned).

As far as end-to-end encryption, uh, well, that's a lot of management. I
don't see that happening in any campus environment. I don't see how it's
practical. That said, you can FORCE end-to-end encryption with AD and
IPSEC. This is sometimes done for servers. You can also do this for UNIX
and Linux servers, but I don't know of a policy tool that can force this
across a large heterogeneous environment.

And desktops and laptops oh my!

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Terry Stockdale wrote:
> At 12:54 PM 10/12/2008, you wrote:
>> According to this, it is now practical to crack WPA.
>>
>> http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/12/1724230
>>
>> I was not happy when LSU started using WPA on their network because it
>> is not
>> end to end encryption and provides only an illusion of security.  So
>> much for
>> the illusion.  I wonder if LSU will back down on WPA now.
> 
> WPA has been worthless for a long time.  Do they support WPA2?
> 
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