[Talk] How secure is wireless, in practical terms?

[Adam Glass]

Larry also cited an article about cracking WPA.  It essentially says
that it's not hard, and really comes down to using a password cracking
program plus some other software.

Sounds like more of a when than an if  :)

--Adam


On 11/7/06, Danny Rathjens <dannyr@wirespring.com> wrote:
> Just to clarify.  He did not claim WPA is easy to crack.  He said
> it was much more secure than WEP and that *if* someone managed to
> get through the WPA encryption, then figuring out the MAC address
> of machines on the net is easy.
> That is a pretty big if.
>
> Adam Glass wrote:
> > Hi Larry,
> >
> > As they say, you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you :)
> >
> > I plan to have a multi-denominational network with a Linux server and
> > desktops that variously run Linux, OSX and Windows.  Since WPA has
> > issues on Linux, and is easy to crack, I will definitely go the wired
> > route.
> >
> > Thanks for the advice!
> > --Adam
> >
> >
> > On 11/6/06, Lawrence Kagan <me@larrykagan.com> wrote:
> >> One more thing, if the site you're on is using ssl (I'm sure it is),
> >> AFAIK, it takes a relatively long time to crack ssl encryption.  So
> >> the transaction itself is pretty secure, even is the network is not.
> >> Although, if the cracker has gained access to your network and has
> >> the mac addresses, he could be running a man-in-the-middle attack by
> >> spoofing the mac of your router, then your requests would be going
> >> through an otherwise transparent proxy.  The proxy could then be
> >> running ethereal (patched with ssl decryption) to view your information.
> >>
> >> Man, am I paranoid or what?
> >>
> >> Larry
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