[geeks] home wap paranoia

[Kurt Huhn]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:00:57 -0600 (CST)
Daniel Johannsson wrote:

> 
> Are people in general just trusting 128bit wep and using non broadcast
> ssids, or also doing things like putting the wap on a private network,
> and then forcing ipsec tunnels from the laptops to a machine with a
> nic on both the private and the external facing network?
> 

I use 128b WEP, non-broadcast ssid, and I limit connections based on
MAC address.  Now, obviously, this isn't going to prevent someone from
going promiscuous, snarfing packets, and saving them for later
decryption - but I think that 128b WEP would pretty much make that an
exercise in futility.

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