[36853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Custom Wireless Solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Mon Apr 23 04:35:18 2001
To: Mohan Sundar <xmohansundar@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>,
Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:57:41 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:06:23 +0100
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From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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>
>How secure is this connection? Does 802.11
>provide security implicitly?
802.11 provides basic authentication with SSID's, and encryption with WEP
(Wireless Encryption Protocol). Neither is particularly hard to crack, but
it does protect you from casual intrusion.
Simon
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