Re: Authentication Open vs Shared Key

In article <Xns99AB5DBB58009juergennieveler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Juergen Nieveler <juergen.nieveler.nospam@xxxxxxxx> writes:
david20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

If you are using shared key authentication with WEP then you are the
incompetant. Shared key authentication doesn't work and actually makes
WEP even more unsecure than it otherwise is.

Uh... I suppose he knows already, hence his other post stating "WEP...
is not appropriate" ;-)

Regardless of how you exchange keys, WEP simply is too insecure to use.

Agreed - which is why I suggested that he look at WPA or WPA2.

David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University


Juergen Nieveler
--
Nolli turbare testiculos meos!
.