Am 06. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte Thomas Tate so:

> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 2:21PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 04. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte Darrell Shandrow so:
> >
> > WEP is not sufficient. It shouldn't even be turned on.

Oops, watch the quoting :). That statement was from me. Don't want Darrell
to take the blame :).

> But if it's the only solution at this point (for physical layer
> security, anyway) why should it be turned off? I would figure that even
> a little bit of encryption would be better than nothing.

Ah, but you should be running a secure tunnel. For home use WEP as well as =
a
tunnel isn't bad. For work it tempts management to claim WEP is secure, so
they can get rid of the secure tunnel the first time it isn't acting
properly ( regardless of the problem really being that the access point is
sitting on top of the microwave... ).

ciao,

der.hans
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