[109359] in Cypherpunks
Re: Encrypted wireless LAN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Mar 20 15:44:49 1999
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 11:26:36 -0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990320045135.27819B-100000@pakastelohi.cyphe
rpunks.to>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 04:53 AM 3/20/99 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
>Anybody know if there are wireless LAN products that encrypt the
>over-the-air link with strong crypto? Short range products are fine. I
>need this for my home.
A long long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, er, about 5 years ago,
AT&T/NCR WaveLAN was a 2Mbps radio-based ethernet. It used spread spectrum,
and there was an optional DES chip for it. I'm not sure who owns the
WaveLAN product line now (I think Lucent got it), or if it's still got
a DES chip option.
Alternatively, for about $169 (or less on sale) per pair you can buy
Aviator, from Webgear or Netgear, which is a 2Mbps short-range radio LAN,
supporting up to 32 radio devices, and see if you can run a tunneled
IPSEC Ethernet over it. I don't know if there are Linux drivers available
for it - mine's running Win95. You could probably run PPTP over it on Win95,
which is enough to keep out anklebiters, but not enough to stop the NSA.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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