[109380] in Cypherpunks
Re: Encrypted wireless LAN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Mon Mar 22 11:10:39 1999
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 22 Mar 1999 15:56:49 GMT
Reply-To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
In article <3.0.5.32.19990320112636.00883ca0@idiom.com>,
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> wrote:
>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.
Yup, they've still got the DES chips. I told Lucky about these, but
(naturally) he doesn't consider DES to be "strong crypto".
- Ian
