On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:35:23 -0500
"William L. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today's NYTimes has an article about "piggybacking" on open wireless
> networks and what some people think about it and what some are doing
> about it. The link is:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/technology/
I think it's important to understand the difference between encryption
and security (or being secure). Encryption is a tool, being secure is a
state.
Think of encryption as a lock on a door. Putting a lock on a door
doesn't necessarily make your house any more secure. If you leave your
window
At 6:04 AM -0800 3/6/06, Jeremy Epstein wrote:
> Encryption is one way to secure the *transport* on the network (subject to
> various caveats about appropriate use of crypto, trust issues, etc.). I'd
> strongly disagree with anyone who says that encryption "makes a network
> secure" - because peo
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> At 12:35 PM -0500 3/5/06, William L. An
This is a very good question and is worth a careful answer.
For most "off the shelf" users and press people, "securing" and
"encrypting traffic on" do amount to the same thing when it comes to
wireless networks. In this case, the encryption they turn on is
hopefully WPA and not WEP. Early versio
At 12:35 PM -0500 3/5/06, William L. Anderson wrote:
> My question is whether it's more accurate to say "secure their network"
> rather than "encrypt". I'm not clear myself about the meaning of these
> terms; I think of encryption as being one way to make a network secure.
Another way that was de
