[109364] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: encrypted wireless LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (scoops)
Sat Mar 20 20:37:10 1999
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:18:53 -0800
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
From: scoops <scoops@quiknet.com>
Cc: ryan@venona.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990321015510.1727A-100000@pakastelohi.cypher
punks.to>
Reply-To: scoops <scoops@quiknet.com>
May I proffer a follow-on question? Such as, "Or is there anything
available that can be easily modified to provide strong crypto in a WaveLAN
environment?"
At 01:57 AM 3/21/99 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
>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?
>
>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
>> --
>> ryan@venona.com
>> http://www.venona.com/rdl/
>> 1024D/4096g 0xD2E0301F B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F
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>-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
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