Wifi PIN

[Michael Butash]

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.

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.

Friends don't let friends use wep.

-mb


On 05/09/2013 08:17 PM, keith smith wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just got off the phone with Dell.  I bought a new Dell and it would
> not connect to my WIFI.
>
> I have another computer that is in another room that has worked on this
> network for 3+ years w/o an issue.
>
> The first guy told me to never password protect my router, and never
> configure an access list.  He said by using a WEP key my router is
> secure.  I disagree.  I'm thinking the more layers of security the better.
>
> So the second guy says the problem was I needed to disable the router's
> PIN, which he did and then he changed the wireless channel to 6 (was
> auto) and the new Dell was able to access the Internet.
>
> However then the computer in the other room could not access the
> Internet.  Ok, after a reboot it now connects via WIFI.
>
> I was able to re-activate my access list. I had a WEP key in place the
> whole time.
>
> I did a little reading on the PIN and it appears it is not all that
> important and is a consumer grade protection in case no other security
> is used.
>
> Is the PIN just a low grade security level that is not all that
> effective?  Also do you agree with the first guy that said the only
> change should be to add a WEP key?
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
>
>
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> Keith Smith
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