[geeks] Wireless AP

[Thomas Gallaway]

Wireless has gotten better. The new firmware pretty much prevents weak 
IV
codes from being used. I do a lot of 802.11b stuff and have a dedicated 
quad
xeon machine at the office to crack wep keys for customers. So far I 
was not
able to bruteforce any of the newer firmware wep keys nor while 
sniffing packets
able to get more than 4 weak keys and that after 1 weeks of packet 
sniffing on
a heavy load network.

Also I run a wireless bridge to a second location using cisco yagi's, 
amp and
a bridge. I gave up bruteforcing the wep key on it after 3 1/2 weeks.

Also a good point always is why should somebody bother cracking your wep
key if they can drive down a block and pick up 5 networks that do not 
have wep.
Then again if you name your ap like VISA-HQ or SECRETCORP then it is 
just
stuipd.

-- Thomas

On Feb 12, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:35:06PM -0700, Dan Duncan wrote:
>> I trust wireless about as much as I trust the internet.
>
> I don't have any wireless right now, but when I do, it will have
> its own separate interface on the PIX, and it will ONLY be able to
> connect out to the internet.
>
> Bill
>
> -- 
> bill bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> austin, texas
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