On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 18:43 +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: > www.aircrack-ng.org can actually recover the WEP key itself. > > Using the WEP key, an attacker can connect to your wireless router > and become a part of your LAN. After that the attacker can access your > LAN clients, use your internet bandwidth, etc. > > WEP is bad. > > If you have a hackable wireless router (something that runs openwrt), > you can handle the wireless encryption at a higher layer by using openvpn > or ipsec between the wireless clients and the router. > > - Raja
Ah, I see. Thank you, Raja and Arun, for your warnings. I will look into using WPA. Regards, -- Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
