WPA Encryption Explained

[ponytail]

Great guide! Just bought a wireless router a few weeks ago and now understand much more about security.

[sfalcon]

I have a WRT54G with SSID broadcasting off, MAC filtering, and 128-bit WEP encryption. I tried WPA-PSK but I don't think my TrueMobile 1180 802.11b WLAN CF card supports WPA...:( Am I still fairly secure?

[PseudoRandomDragon]

  SFalcon said:

Am I still fairly secure?

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The MAC filtering is the best line of defense against preventing someone from getting in, but the traffic can still be sniffed allowing someone interested to find out what you're doing online.

[Nexus]

Nice Guide have to apply it. Thanks.

[fAlCoNNiAn]

  SFalcon said:

I have a WRT54G with SSID broadcasting off, MAC filtering, and 128-bit WEP encryption.  I tried WPA-PSK but I don't think my TrueMobile 1180 802.11b WLAN CF card supports WPA...:(  Am I still fairly secure?

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for the most part, i would still change my wep key every month or so. i have a Aironet (cisco) 802.11b card that doesnt support WPA, so 128-bit wep is the highest i can go as well.

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

I would use WPA but the stupid PSP only allows WEP so I need to stick to that until they allow WPA. Sigh.

[Dmitry G]

quality stuff.. thanks!

[Zxian]

A small update... I just switched over to WPA last night... no problems so far!

I'll be pointing people in this general direction when referring to wifi security.

[Tomi]

What a coincidence. My dad just showed me this article today...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=43

[PseudoRandomDragon]

  tm? said:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=43

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I didn't know that about SSID broadcasting and I suspected that MAC addresses could easily be sniffed anyway. Thanks for the info.

[RootWind]

Good place to find if your equipment supports WPA:

http://www.wi-fi.org/OpenSection/certified...ducts.asp?TID=2

[morebaker]

if you want wpa-2 download kB893357 from microsoft to upgrade.