Re: WEP

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:24:40AM -0500, tom wrote:
> Can someone point me to something that will tell me how to set up
> an encrypted WEP using only Linux?
> 
> I am not even able to find much explaining the network ID
> (SESS_ID).
> I got something working with ADHOC and no security, but I'd like
> to try for a named network and some security.
> 
> Any suggestions?

 Suggestion: don't trust WEP.  It's another layer of obscurity, but it's
designed wrong and not at all secure.  Some past articles on /. have links
to papers by people who've broken WEP.  I wouldn't trust it to keep my spare
change secure.

 That said, it doesn't hurt to use it as long as you still treat it as an
insecure network, and use SSH or IPSec for everything.  It's another layer
of stuff to deter a casual attacker.  Just don't get a false sense of
security.

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