End-to-end application layer security for anything that has security requirements, ssl and ssh, is a key compoent of wireless or generalized network security.
joelja On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, S Woodside wrote: > You're doing everything that's possible with vanilla WiFi. Check out > the offerings from (Cisco?) that implement proprietary or draft > security (like WPA) however they are much more expensive. > > Of course the best thing to do with any system is to use VPN to encrypt > the communications at a higher level. > > simon > > On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Schmidt, Kevin wrote: > > > Hi gang! Greetings from Des Moines, Iowa! I thought I would call upon > > your > > expertise as I have blanketed the web and am yet to find the answer to > > my > > question. > > > > Currently I am running a linksys BEFW11S4 Wirless router with my cable > > modem. Currently I am not broadcasting the SSID and have the 128 bit > > WEP > > enabled. I have been reading that both of these types of security > > don't > > offer much security. I am wanting to beef up my signal and am > > wondering > > what security precautions are best to take. I have seen things such as > > hosted radius, but am a little unsure about that. > > What advice would you guys offer? > > > --- > www.simonwoodside.com > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
