Hardening WIFI

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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
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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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> 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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> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 2:58 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Please feel free to let me know if my expectations are not valid.
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> Thanks in advance!!
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> Keith
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