Re: authentication types

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 12:13 -0500, Bill Moss wrote:
> The Cisco recommendation on security types is fairly representative.
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/102/wlan/confwep.html
> _____________________
> *Accept Authentication Types*
> 
> Select the / *Open* / option, the / *Shared Key* / option, or both, to 
> set the authentications the Access Point will recognize.
> 
> *Open (RECOMMENDED)*
> 
> This default setting allows any device, regardless of its WEP keys, to 
> authenticate and attempt to associate.
> 
> *Shared Key*
> 
> This setting tells the Access Point to send a plain-text, Shared Key 
> query to any device attempting to associate with the Access Point. This 
> query can leave the Access Point open to a known-text attack from 
> intruders. Therefore, it is not as secure as the Open setting.
> _____________________
> 
> Note that a WEP key can be used with both Open and Shared Key 
> authentication. It is a separate issue.

You're right, we should probably change to Open System as default.  I
made the changes locally last night, I'll commit them to CVS and then
we'll see how it works for a while.

Dan