In my state, WEP is useful as a legal matter -- "borrowing" unsecured wireless connectivity is not illegal, whereas "stealing" secured access is. Sometimes the technical issues are not the only important ones.
Marti On Nov 19, 2007 8:59 AM, David Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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----- > > -- Systems Programmer, Principal Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Systems Programmer, Principal Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
