20 Aug
2005
20 Aug
'05
11:22 a.m.
This is all rather overkill for my needs. I just want to use my Laptop to surf the web and read email without having a cable trailing around the room. Regards On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:03 +1200, Ian McDonald wrote:
WPA-PSK isn't much better if you're not careful. WPA-PSK uses TKIP, which is an RC4 based algorithm, and easily bruteforceable if your key is small. The upshot is, if you're using WPA-PSK, make sure your key is a lot larger than 20 characters.
Agree - should have said that
Or you could set up WPA-RADIUS and 802.1x for dynamic per-port keying, which fixes a lot of the issues. Some instances of WPA will use AES, although this isn't part of the original WPA specification. WPA2 "fixes" these problems as it uses AES.