On Sunday 24 December 2006 21:43, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > There are two things that involve keys in your wireless link: > authentication (are you allowed to connect to the access point) and > encryption (is the data you send and receive over the air encrypted). If > you use WEP, then your data is encrypted. In an "open" system, you are > allowed to connect no matter what, but you can't send or receive data > without a key in common with the access point. In a "shared-key" system, > you must have a key in common with the access point in order to connect at > all and a key to share data. These could be the same, but then I don't > think you get much additional security from a shared-key arrangement.
Thanks very much. I was confused about this, but now am completely clear. As I said, it hasn't really affected my experience, as I haven't been using any key when connecting - or trying to connect - to the Linksys WRT54GL. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
