Airport 64-bit WEP support ?

[Matt Johnston]

On 29 Jan 2007, at 01:57, Rosyna wrote:

>> WEP is something you can have to stop the casual wardriver.
>
> No, it's not. Because of the speed of cracking it and the amount of  
> automated tools available, it's entirely trivial for a wardriver to  
> break WEP.

The casual wardriver isn't looking for a 10 minute hack, they're  
looking for an OPEN network.
> Conversely, I haven't seen any known attacks for WPA2 even for the  
> dedicated hacker,

So what? How is that even relevant? It's goal-post shifting.

>> WEP is not meant to be "secure" in any meaning of the word. It  
>> (used to) stand for Wired Equivalency Protocol (though wikipedia  
>> says "Wired_Equivalent_Privacy". Do you understand that? It's to  
>> give the same "security" as if you were on a wire. Are wired  
>> communications secure? No, of course not.
> Wired communications are far more secure than wireless if the only  
> way to access the wired connection point is to be inside a given  
> building at a given location.

Straw man. In any given building there can be hundreds of access  
ports, most of them live. And common MAC-based lockouts, even if they  
are employed, are not going to stop someone who's bothered to look up  
WEP cracks.

> Wired connections using switches or routers are also far more  
> secure than wireless as one wired client cannot spy on the packets  
> of another wired client.

Again, qualifying to make a straw man argument. Let's play that game  
- it's not just intruders you need to protect against but what about  
your local IT guy. Is he paid enough to keep him honest? What's  
stopping him from putting a monitor on your wired port so he can see  
all your traffic? Or a keystroke logger?

And when your WPA-encrypted hits your router? You know, out on the  
internet? Whataya know it's unsecured again.

Because very few people encrypt their traffic. Except for where it  
matters. The average user has no idea what's encrypted or not. And no  
ways to check.

>> The sky is not falling.
> Wirelss is done in the sky.

You're peddling hysteria, Rosyna.

M