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Help add strong crypto to AirPorts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lenny Foner)
Fri Jun 16 00:21:31 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 03:24:00 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200006140724.DAA15141@out-of-band.media.mit.edu>
From: Lenny Foner <foner@media.mit.edu>
To: shamrock@cypherpunks.to
Cc: cypherpunks@openpgp.net, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: <LNBBKBDNAIGNIABGAGJLOEJCFOAA.shamrock@cypherpunks.to> (message
from Lucky Green on Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:22:33 -0700)
Cc: foner@media.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:22:33 -0700
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Apple is taking a customer survey which features to add to the next
generation Apple AirPort (IEEE 802.11). The current version only does weak
crypto. You can cast your vote for strong crypto here:
http://survey.apple.com/AirPort/
...although it's certainly handy that Apple's using standard WaveLAN
cards, and hence you can swap in Gold cards and it'll Just Work ('cept
for some configuration issues if you've -only- got a Mac). See
http://www.msrl.com/airport-gold/ for more details.
Of course, Apple should just ship strong crypto anyway. Not only is
it safer for their users, but it saves having to essentially buy and
throw away the Silver card that comes with this. And it would thus
sure be nice if their configuration software understood 128-bit keys
as well.
[It'd also be nice if you could roam w/out requiring them to be
bridged, but that's not exactly a crypto-related issue...]
P.S. So does configuration software for 802.11 cards typically make
it possible for users to reliably get 128 bits of entropy with which
to generate the keys? After all, it doesn't do you much good to have
long keys if whatever's generating them isn't very random. What are
people's experiences with this?
