[MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge 802.11x (TKIP or AES)

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

At 07:58 AM 5/27/2005, you wrote:
>why all the need for security? even when wep can be broken it stops  99% 
>of people

I guess it depends on the application.  Certainly, for a home network I'd 
agree for 99% of cases.  I run WEP, and I'm one of only 3 WLANs that run 
WEP (out of about 15) in my area, so based on that, I figure WEP provides 
all the protection I need.

Now if I was guarding a lot of highly sensitive data, against determined 
hackers that would be a totally different matter, but for the average 
punter, WEP at least tells the casual passing wardriver/user to "move 
along"... :)

And the only reasons I don't want any freeloaders are:

1.  ISP's AUP doesn't permit that kind of sharing (bugger!)
2.  I make heavy demands on my upstream bandwidth. (one day I'll get the 
time to figure out shaping :) ).
3.  I don't want to assist anyone involved in piracy 
(music/movies/pr0n)...  Too much hassle these days, having ISPs kill one's 
access and the Feds drop by kinda ruins ya day... ;)

WEP may not be particularly strong protection, but for the average home 
user, it's a good start, and sufficient to stop the majority of problems.

For my own data, a lot of my internal communications takes place over SSH 
(e.g. for mail).  That's actually because I use SSH tunneling for access 
from anywhere I can get an Internet connection, but communications over the 
WLAN gets the benefit of SSH encryption as well.

73 de VK3JED
http://vkradio.com


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