Re: WEP vs WPA

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

Rather than try and explain it myself here are a couple of links on the subject:
http://www.openxtra.co.uk/articles/wep-weaknesses.php
http://www.opus1.com/www/whitepapers/whatswrongwithwep.pdf

On 4/18/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net> wrote:
>
>
> I must be losing something is the WEP vs wpa discussion. wpa is supposed
> to be more secure than WEP, However currently my WEP access at home is
> secured by a 13 character (128 bit) passwd. In addition there the
> keyring string. That seems pretty secure to me.
>
> Could someone explain why this security is so compromisable that the
> added trouble of wpa is worth doing?
> --
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>
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