<div dir="ltr"><div>Do a google search on "cracking WEP" and you will find a LOT of information including instructions on how to crack it in 60 seconds.<br><br></div>WPA-PSK is pretty good as long as all your equipment supports it. Some old gear may not.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Use wpa2-psk, make sure it uses aes/ccmp, about all that holds true for consumer-grade right now. There are proprietary "pin" or "pair" methods, but wpa2 with a large/complex pre-share key is much better standard than trusting poor vendor implementations of crypto.<br>
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About anything else is inherently insecure in some form until you spawn a pki/ca/radius for peap/eap-tls. Even mschap-v2 is vulnerable without some kind of pki exchange tunnelling methods.<br>
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Friends don't let friends use wep.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-mb</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 05/09/2013 08:17 PM, keith smith wrote:<br>
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<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
I just got off the phone with Dell. I bought a new Dell and it would<br>
not connect to my WIFI.<br>
<br>
I have another computer that is in another room that has worked on this<br>
network for 3+ years w/o an issue.<br>
<br>
The first guy told me to never password protect my router, and never<br>
configure an access list. He said by using a WEP key my router is<br>
secure. I disagree. I'm thinking the more layers of security the better.<br>
<br>
So the second guy says the problem was I needed to disable the router's<br>
PIN, which he did and then he changed the wireless channel to 6 (was<br>
auto) and the new Dell was able to access the Internet.<br>
<br>
However then the computer in the other room could not access the<br>
Internet. Ok, after a reboot it now connects via WIFI.<br>
<br>
I was able to re-activate my access list. I had a WEP key in place the<br>
whole time.<br>
<br>
I did a little reading on the PIN and it appears it is not all that<br>
important and is a consumer grade protection in case no other security<br>
is used.<br>
<br>
Is the PIN just a low grade security level that is not all that<br>
effective? Also do you agree with the first guy that said the only<br>
change should be to add a WEP key?<br>
<br>
Thanks!!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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Keith Smith<br>
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