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Subject: Re: affordable wireless 
Reply-To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:11:15 PDT."
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote:

> Even at 128 bits, WEP encryption is, at best, rather weak. The right
> answer is to use strong encryption for everything.
> 
> OpenSSH is now a standard part of FreeBSD. Use it and stop sending
> clear passwords over the net. Then you don't care about the security
> of the link, only the end nodes.

     Very true.  If people want to know why, see:

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2000/02/04/0001.html

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	Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@soco.agilent.com

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