On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Haxby wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >>>I would hardly do anything WIFI unless it was encrypted. And I don't > >>>mean ROT13 encrypted, I mean SSL or so. But then, I'm paranoid! > >>> > >>> > > > >The thing here is.. It's _fast_. I only have a dial-up at home and it's > >sloooooowww. Painfully slow... If there is a way I can secure/tunnel the > >connection to yahoo, that would be great. > > > > > WEP is not brilliant, but it's a lot better than WPA (which it > replaced). The main problem with WEP is that it is tarred with the > same brush as WPA -- at least WEP has had some sort of security review. I think you've got this reversed. WPA has been designed to replace WEP. > The only problem you have is someone stealing your WiFi access > authentication, after that you can use SSL/SSH to your heart's > content. If you're using an ISP for mail, you rarely (if ever) get > encrypted access, ISPs simply aren't interested in that level of protection. Actually, ISPs just aren't interested in the support nightmares that would go hand in hand with having to repeatedly and constantly hold the hands of the multitudes of users who would need to be restepped through the process of resetting encryption, etc, every time they needed to reinstall Windows. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
