[Cialug] DI-634M

[Josh More]

1) WEP can be cracked easily these days.

2) A powered antenna can sniff keys from shockingly great distances.  A Pringle can is less effective, but can still greatly extend range.

You can deal with these problems by setting up an IPSEC VPN between the two, running over WEP, or by buying a newer card that supports WPA2.  Of course, you could also just run a cable.  :)
  
-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of L. V. Lammert [lvl at omnitec.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 15:50
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] DI-634M

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 ed at edmeacham.com wrote:

> What type of encryption is it doing? (WEP/WPA/WPA2[corp|personal] etc)
>
WEP, .. I expected that to be the 'lowest common denominator'

> I know I've had issues with older cards (and some newer) not getting down
> with WPA2... In those cases I switched to WEP, but it was for I knew would
> be less likely to have someone trying to crack the key-- small town/country
> dwellers.
>
Houses are far enough apart around here that even if someone was trying to
sniff the key, they would have to be in a visible location.

        TFTR!

        Lee
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