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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (24338)1/5/2002 12:10:43 PM
From: Stang  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110653
 
Bill:

Thanks for the info.

Security seems to be the weakest link.

The Extremtech article has very good tips on securing Wireless networks.

Good tips with the Mac address and static ip's configuration.

I will research 802.xx solutions and report back here when/if I deploy my Home wireless lan.

On the security issues.
(Disclaimer, I'm far away here from my domain of expertise)

SSL (https) is widely used on the Web to transmit/receive:

- sensitive information like credit cards
- some folks use SSL for login and passwords (Instead of
sending them in plain text)
- some folks even use SSL to send and receive files via https

I know that Organizations need to obtain a certificate from folks like Verisign to SSL enable their servers.

Here's what I'm getting at:

Would it not make sense for Wireless vendor's or 802.xx developpers to SSL enable
their transmitters and receivers?

Certificates would not be required for private lans.

As far as I know SSL is not owned by anyone.
Heck all major browsers support SSL out of the box.
I guess somehow enabling SSL for tcp/ip instead of http.

Stang in Dreamland



To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (24338)2/11/2002 2:05:45 AM
From: bosquedog  Respond to of 110653
 
Thanks for posting the link to that article on security risks of wireless networks. It motivated me to figure out why I was unable to get the wireless link to work with encryption enabled. Now I have the 128 bit encryption enabled and mac address filtering for the wireless portion of the network . I think the culprit was less than clear instruction but maybe it was the denseness of my skull.<G>


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