Re: Hardening WIFI

this really is about all that's left in our current wifi protocols now.

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:

> If you want security and Wifi, do the security outside the context of
> Wifi - like, require all Wifi traffic to be done through a vpn.
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Carruth, Rusty
> <Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com> wrote:
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> > ONLY 32? Aren’t you allowed 128?
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> > Yeah, for the longest time mine was 128 chars long. VERY nasty when
> entering new devices… My family finally forced me to make it a little
> shorter! ;-)
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> > Subject: Re: Hardening WIFI
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> > Appreciate your help and advice!!
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> > On 2017-11-23 15:52, Michael Butash wrote:
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> > Ensure you're only using wpa2-aes (no tkip, or mix wpa1-2), and use a
> very long psk string. Ensure your clients aren't vulnerable to the
> blueborne and other wifi ota exploits. Not much else you can do really
> unless you want to run a radius and/or cert pki in-house to do eap-tls, or
> peap. You can crack against wpa2, but unless using an easy string, it's
> not easy or assured they will figure out your string.
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> > I use a 32char random string, special characters, really annoying when
> adding new devices, but I don't worry about someone cracking it.
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> > -mb
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> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 2:58 PM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to "Harden" my WIFI and am not sure where to start. I seem
> to recall past discussions on replacing the standard equipment provided by
> our ISP.
> >
> > I would like to make it very difficult to hack my WIFI and I would like
> a firewall. And I would like this to be "Plug and Play" as much as is
> possible. In other words I would like to stay away from installing a Linux
> firewall on an extra PC and then having to maintain it.
> >
> > Please feel free to let me know if my expectations are not valid.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!
> >
> > Keith
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