Re: [NTLK] WEP vs Airport

From: Darrell Greenwood (lists1_at_telus.net)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 10:55:41 PDT


On 4/27/03 at 9:12 AM +0200, Robert Benschop wrote :

>So what's the verdict to the non-specialist?

Turn WEP on using a random hex key from
<http://world.std.com/~reinhold/passgen.html>.

Change the key periodically. It typically takes millions of packets
to crack WEP. In my case that amount of traffic takes at least a
couple of weeks to be generated. That limits one's potential crackers
to neighbours or deep pocket government agencies.

Cheers,

Darrell

p.s., in my case I have also "closed" the network so the SSID is not
broadcast and enabled the MAC access list.

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