On Thu, 11 May 2006, Aaron Konstam wrote:
Your post is extremely interesting but leaves me with a question and a statement. Question: I thought I was using 13 character WEP passwd but the file in the .gconf records only a 10 character passwd. Why is this?
It sounds like it could be a legacy of earlier versions. Your 13 character key is probably in the keyring.
Now about locking. You choose a lock consistent with the security you want to have. I am satisfied to have a lock and deadbolt on my house but it is not completely secure. Someone would have to be crazy to spend 10 to 24 hours to crack mt WEP passwd. If I was a bank it would be different. I am not convinced yet that for the vast majority of users a 13 bit WEP passwd is not secure enough. I also agree removing the ESSID makes it harder to figure out what access point you are connected to.
No, for the vast majority of users WEP >>is<< enough. The point is that gnome-keyring is overkill for those users as well. 700 protection of the key in your home directory is probably enough as that is "locked" against everybody but root, and nothing is really locked against root. The weakness in the house metaphor is that the house has a universal master key in the hands of a hopefully benevolent but fairly easily subverted individual (who could be you). At any time they can unlock your house even if you otherwise bury it in ten feet of steel reinforced concrete, and THEY live in a house which has proven annoyingly vulnerable countless times in the past, allowing their master privileges to be stolen by the good and the wicked alike. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
