Re: Perpetuating weak wireless security

On 5/9/07, nick leachman <nleachman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Hi Nico,
>
> First, it was nice to meet you last week at AD. I've heard much about
> you from Jerry - all good no less!
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> 2) What bothers me more is that solutions of this type provides a
> means to extend the life of a known weak security method. Argue what
> you will about bridging the gap to allow companies to make it to their
> next hardware refresh cycle (in order to discard WEP); but we know
> that what will actually happen in many cases is that this type of
> solution will instead provide a means to delay the normal refresh
> cycle - thereby extending the life of WEP in this case. If it is
> "perceived" that the king now has clothes, where's the incentive to
> change? (And no, I'm not a hardware vendor :-)

People are still using WEP. I would argue that while a move to WPA is
a Good Thing, we can't people froce to do so, for various reasons. I'm
sure someone somewhere will appreciate this strengthening of WEP, and
the technology can possibly very well be used to boost WPA/WPA2/etc.

-HeWhoHuntsCats, SysAdmin in training.