[geeks] cheap 802.11?

[Mike Meredith]

On Friday 28 February 2003 10:43 pm, David L Kindred (Dave) wrote:
>     Gary> 2> Use 128-bit WEP (with a decent key) and change your key
>     Gary> 2> periodically!
>
> We really need help from the vendors (dare I say even from MS) to
> facilitate this.  The process of changing the key is just too much
> more painful than it should be, especially with a roaming workforce

WEP is being replaced with WPA in the near future which automatically 
changes the encryption key every 10,000 packets(?) so should make 
cracking the encryption a bit tougher. Mind you I'm sufficiently 
paranoid that I'm not going to trust it ... it comes from the same 
people who told us that WEP was secure, and smells like a bodge.