Authentication Open vs Shared Key

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Authentication Open vs Shared Key Bob Simon 09-12-2007
Posted by Juergen Nieveler on September 14, 2007, 5:11 am
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david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk 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.

Juergen Nieveler
--
Nolli turbare testiculos meos!

Posted by on September 14, 2007, 6:10 am
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>david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk 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!

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