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Author: Matt Alexander
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Subject: Wireless Security
Craig White said:
> On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:03, Matt Alexander wrote:
>> Carl Parrish said:
>> > Any one have a good source on securing a wireless network with Linux?
>> > I'm *very* concerned about security but want to go wireless. Thought
>> I'd
>> > check in here first for sources that ppl may have already found to be
>> > good.
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/paedia/w/wireless-security-howto/home-802.11b-1.html
>> ---------------------------------------------------
> I kind of thought that the term wireless security was an oxymoron like
> military intelligence...


WPA is a big improvement and should improve the situation greatly as more
devices and software support it, as long as the chosen PSK is complicated
enough to not be susceptible to a dictionary-based brute-force attack...
~M