[Novalug] best way to secure wireless?

[Matt Ahrens]

In about 30 minutes, a determined individual probably can:


   - Identify your network with or without SSID broadcasting enabled,
   - Break WEP, and
   - Identify and clone a legitimate MAC address for your network

All this said, it takes a determined individual and you have to be the most
interesting target on the street.  If your neighbor has an open access
point, you probably won't receive this attention.

wpa_supplicant w/wpa_gui (http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/) has a
GUI which may help you configure WPA networks.  I wouldn't exactly call it
linux newbie friendly, but it can be a good resource for configuring
Wireless networks.

On 11/27/06, Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned at panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> Peter Larsen
> > Paul M. wrote:
> >> Personally I'm in favor of using a VPN like OpenVPN. SSL and
> >> IPSEC have been looked at and targeted for longer than the
> >> current batch of "built in" wireless security protos.
>
> > All of the above have changed a lot over the time. They were
> > flexible enough to allow for different encryption protocols.
> > Nobody uses 64 bit encryption SSLs anymore for good reasons.
>
> How secure is secure enough?  At home, I hide and change the
> network name(SSID?), I filter the MAC addresses, I used to use
> WEP until I had to reset the router and then couldn't remember
> the magical incantation anymore to get that to work again.  WEP
> isn't all that effective (security wise) is it?  I usually use
> the wired network in preference to the wireless network (for no
> real reason).  Does Linux have a package for WPA (preferrably
> FC4 to make life easier for this newbie).
>
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