[ShadowAce]

Welcome to my 600th thread posted!

[AFreeBird]

Whew. I use WPA2. Never used WEP

[ConservativeMind]

Use WPA with AES, which is more secure and usually runs in hardware rather than TKIP which tends to run in software.

[CE2949BB]

If it’s wireless, assume it’s insecure.

Don’t know what else to say.

[shorty_harris]

Well, what’s a person to do? I try to be reasonably secure. Turned off SSID broadcast, use WPA, don’t use MAC filtering anymore (too much hassle, since I’m constantly changing hardware around). I figure if somebody’s determined enough to go after me, with 6 other wireless access points withing sniffing distance (most unsecured), there’s not much I can do about it, short of pulling the plug.

[RhoTheta]

Bump for reference

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Using massive computational resources, the attacker essentially cracks the encryption by making an extremely large number of educated guesses as to what key is being used to secure the wireless data.

So brute force is the key and it takes a real whooper of a system to pull it off.

For some strange reason, I'm not too worried about this.
I don't think anyone sitting outside my house looking for a Wi-Fi connection is going to be able to hack my WPA protected network.

[Alas Babylon!]

802.1x with PEAP-CHAP. Even negotiating access to the WAPs is encrypted.

[KoRn]

"Welcome to my 600th thread posted!"

Congratulations Ace!!! I have always enjoyed your threads and pings. Bad news on the WPA. It was bound to happen sooner or later.