David wrote:
Does anyone know if there is WPA support for OpenBSD being worked on?
This would be nice.
There was a thread that I started a month ago unfortunately by
mis-spelling WPA as (wap). One of the answers was posted
I think by a developer who is currently working on WPA for OpenBSD. The
information was rather comprehensive and
I would just do harm by trying to repeat it.
Best,
Predrag
David Newman wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On 11/22/07 1:55 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
David Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is some layer-2 stuff that happens before layer-3
handshaking
begins -- 802.11 association and deassociation, possibly layer-2
learning, and 802.1X authentication if that's used. IPSec will
not and
cannot secure any of this.
Is there any need to secure that? In my local WLAN, you only
have two
ways of proceeding if you want internet access: a Tor router, or
IPsec.
Before either of those processes begin, I can associate like crazy to
your access point. That would ensure you never get Internet
access, even
without my flinging a single IP packet at you.
Duh. It's a *radio* network. Of course it can be DoS-ed. WEP
doesn't change that. In fact, popular attacks against WEP generate
massive L2 traffic.
Yes. WPA is somewhat better (in that the better controller-based systems
have rate controls). Other than being better than nothing on really old
hardware, WEP is worthless.
dn
iD8DBQFHRk3LyPxGVjntI4IRApZlAJ44a3Um15XTftC6s7wlHXlWQOr/dwCg8ULI
dZSlpbIowhsNSj3aqcCkoT8=
=TjLE
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
