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Author: Carl Parrish
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Subject: Wireless Security
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:32, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 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


Thanks for this source. It looks very encouraging.

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