On 11/7/02 12:32 AM, Bernard Aboba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [Editor's Note (Shpantzer) Who will go to the trouble of implementing >> this temporary 'solution' only to replace it when 802.11i comes out? > > Customers who have existing access points whose security they'd like to > improve. In most cases, full 802.11i support requires purchasing new APs.
I don't know where this thread started, but obviously the editor hasn't done the research to write about this. The same day that the Wi-Fi Alliance announced WPA with a timetable for certification and requirement (Feb. 2003 and fall 2003, respectively), Proxim, Agere, Intersil, Texas Instruments, Atmel, and Colubris (among others) all simultaneously announced their support for the new standard. They all indicated their intent to have this up and running in the next few months. 802.11i is already working "in the lab." There are few idiots among the Wi-Fi chipmakers; all of them are working on a lot of clever ideas. None of them is waiting for moss to grow on 802.11i, as if they did, they wouldn't be ready when it's ratified. Couple that with the ongoing statements made by the 802.11i task group members in their meeting minutes and elsewhere about backward-compatible support for TKIP... It's just asinine to ask "who will implement this" when so many companies are already committed, and unless 802.11i does a weird and pointless change -- and remember how many manufacturers are on Task Group I -- the final standard will be built on top of this, adding AES-based strong link encryption. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Fleishman, Unsolicited Pundit: read my work at http://glennf.com freelance reporter for The New York Times, Macworld, InfoWorld, et al. Macintosh columnist, The Seattle Times http://seattletimes.com/ptech/ read all the wireless networking news at http://80211b.weblogger.com/ daily Web log musing on technology and my life http://blog.glennf.com/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
