-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/19/07 3:18 AM, Tor Houghton wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:51:49PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: >>> OpenBSD supports WEP. >>> >> Does it even matter? >> > > Well, if you want to prevent someone from accidentally connecting to your > network, yes.
WEP keys can be captured is less than one minute: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/120.pdf http://tapir.cs.ucl.ac.uk/bittau-wep.pdf WEP is certainly better than nothing if all you have is older hardware that doesn't support WPA/WPA2, but that's about all. If your APs and host adapters support WPA, use it, not WEP. dn iD8DBQFHQbLVyPxGVjntI4IRAj8xAKDHZGzDcfW/dPf4o1dnhKsAfMkDYACfc/dZ HIfCGJDx82X8sTsbq0p/rJA= =0EMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
