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Old 09-14-2007, 11:10 AM
david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk
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Default Re: Authentication Open vs Shared Key

In article <Xns99AB5DBB58009juergennieveler@nieveler.org>, Juergen Nieveler <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de> writes:
>david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> If you are using shared key authentication with WEP then you are the
>> incompetant. Shared key authentication doesn't work and actually makes
>> WEP even more unsecure than it otherwise is.

>
>Uh... I suppose he knows already, hence his other post stating "WEP...
>is not appropriate" ;-)
>
>Regardless of how you exchange keys, WEP simply is too insecure to use.
>

Agreed - which is why I suggested that he look at WPA or WPA2.

David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University


>Juergen Nieveler
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