[52245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John M. Brown)
Sun Sep 22 18:15:58 2002
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 15:13:27 -0700
From: "John M. Brown" <john@chagresventures.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0209221641250.23761-100000@clifden.donelan.com>; from sean@donelan.com on Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:06:27PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Use VPN technology, Use 802.11a/b as the media and nothing else.
Encrypte Tunnel your connections.
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:06:27PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> > - the users need to be told how to operate more safely, use
> > end-to-end authentication and privacy, etc. it's a matter of
> > education. and the education will stand them in good stead
> > when they use 802.11 at starbucks, airports, etc. we do this
> > at ietf, but it is not allowed at nanog.
>
> Sunday afternoon is full of tutorials on lots of different subjects.
> Has anyone volunteed to conduct a Sunday tutorial on wireless security
> for users of "public" wireless networks?
>
> Although I think it is a mistake to think a wireless network security
> is different than using any other network you don't control. Most
> wireless security tutorials tend to concentrate on "securing" the
> wireless network instead of how to communicate over an untrusted
> network.
>
>
