[109363] in Cypherpunks
Re: encrypted wireless LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sat Mar 20 20:14:03 1999
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:57:29 +0100 (CET)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: Ryan Lackey <ryan@venona.com>
cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <19990320163728.B26699@llyr.systemics.ai>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
In my original message, I asked for *strong* crypto. Single DES is
not strong crypto. I am aware of single DES WaveLan and I am aware of
IPSEC. So, again, I would like to ask: does anybody know of wireless LAN
products that implement strong crypto?
Thanks,
--Lucky
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Ryan Lackey wrote:
> The Lucent WaveLAN stuff has for $50 more per unit a DES chip built in
> to do hardware crypto.
>
> It's singledes, but IMO that's good enough for a wireless lan if most
> of the traffic is ssh.
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan
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