Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:35:43 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: Jos Visser <josv@osp.nl>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wavelan 802.11 with encryption Message-ID: <20000515093543.A21338@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <E12r5Xj-0001Ux-00@roam.psg.com>; from randy@psg.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 02:03:19PM -0700 References: <391EF3DE.FA17A058@osp.nl> <E12r5Xj-0001Ux-00@roam.psg.com>
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On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 02:03:19PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > > I set up a wireless network in my home using two Lucent WaveLan 802.11 > > wireless LAN cards, one of which sits in a FreeBSD 3.0 machine. It works > > like a charm. But now I want to set up encryption. As far as I can see, > > the current FreeBSD driver does not support encryption? > > WEP encryption is not sufficiently strong for real use. use end-to-end > ip encryption, e.g. ssh etc. In doing research for a wireless network at work, I've seen people say this many times, but I've never seen a single piece of data or analysis. Do you have a refrence to any? -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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