On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:39:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I finally learned how to turn on WEP for wifi.
Now it seems that WPA is the new (secure!?) standard I should use?
Is it easy to switch? how?
In my distribution (gentoo), I was able to add the pacakge
'wpa-supplicant', which took care of most of the work. I put my key in a
text file in /etc, and it basically worked. At least that's the case now.
I have something like this in my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid="myssid"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="mysecretkeyhere"
}
WEP is rediculously insecure. There are tools that can crack the key in a
relatively short amount of time. The most common usage of WPA, simply
negotiates new WEP keys periodically. It can use other encryption
algorithms as well, but a lot of hardware doesn't support them.
My Wifi hardware is an Atheros NIC with the mad-wifi drivers. I don't know
if other hardware has different WPA support or not.
Dave
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