Do a google search on "cracking WEP" and you will find a LOT of information including instructions on how to crack it in 60 seconds.

WPA-PSK is pretty good as long as all your equipment supports it.  Some old gear may not.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
Use wpa2-psk, make sure it uses aes/ccmp, about all that holds true for consumer-grade right now.  There are proprietary "pin" or "pair" methods, but wpa2 with a large/complex pre-share key is much better standard than trusting poor vendor implementations of crypto.

About anything else is inherently insecure in some form until you spawn a pki/ca/radius for peap/eap-tls.  Even mschap-v2 is vulnerable without some kind of pki exchange tunnelling methods.

Friends don't let friends use wep.

-mb



On 05/09/2013 08:17 PM, keith smith wrote:

Hi,

I just got off the phone with Dell.  I bought a new Dell and it would
not connect to my WIFI.

I have another computer that is in another room that has worked on this
network for 3+ years w/o an issue.

The first guy told me to never password protect my router, and never
configure an access list.  He said by using a WEP key my router is
secure.  I disagree.  I'm thinking the more layers of security the better.

So the second guy says the problem was I needed to disable the router's
PIN, which he did and then he changed the wireless channel to 6 (was
auto) and the new Dell was able to access the Internet.

However then the computer in the other room could not access the
Internet.  Ok, after a reboot it now connects via WIFI.

I was able to re-activate my access list. I had a WEP key in place the
whole time.

I did a little reading on the PIN and it appears it is not all that
important and is a consumer grade protection in case no other security
is used.

Is the PIN just a low grade security level that is not all that
effective?  Also do you agree with the first guy that said the only
change should be to add a WEP key?

Thanks!!




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