From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 15 9:36: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C3D37B5C5 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 09:36:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22821; Mon, 15 May 2000 09:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:35:43 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Randy Bush Cc: Jos Visser , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wavelan 802.11 with encryption Message-ID: <20000515093543.A21338@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <391EF3DE.FA17A058@osp.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from randy@psg.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 02:03:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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