[ale] WiFi Hacking

[ctcrreho at opm.gov (Hogg, Russell E)]

Well,
I've honestly not done much reading on it.


But it looks to as if that's required for the full benefits in an enterprise situation.
That PDF does describe a "home" mode..


I'll cut and paste


Wi-Fi Protected Access for Home/SOHO In a home or Small Office/ Home Office (SOHO) environment, where there are no central authentication servers or EAP framework, Wi-Fi Protected Access runs in a special home mode. This mode, also called Pre-Shared Key (PSK), allows the use of manually-entered keys or passwords and is designed to be easy to set up for the home user. All the home user needs to do is enter a password (also called a master key) in their access point or home wireless gateway and each PC that is on the Wi-Fi wireless network. Wi-Fi Protected Access takes over automatically from that point. First, the password allows only devices with a matching password to join the network, which keeps out eavesdroppers and other unauthorized users. Second, the password automatically kicks off the TKIP encryption process, described above.





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Thanks for the link - as I read this, it seems that in order to implement this WPA, you have to implement a central authentication infrastructure of some kind, e.g., RADIUS?

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> Wi-Fi Protected Access is supposed to be the answer to the WEP 
> problems.
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> http://www.weca.net/OpenSection/pdf/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access_Overview.pd
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> Wether or not it is probably remains to be determined.?? Am sure 
> there's plenty on the web about it.
> 
> As always a good VPN would be the way to go..
> 
> Russ
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> Looking at http://www.dlink.com.au/products/routers/di624/ I am seeing 
> a number of purported "security features," to include WPA.?? Am I 
> correct in assuming that, even if you use all the features of this 
> particular device, it's still subject to that "sniff half a gig and 
> you can be on it" attack?
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