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Date:      17 Jan 2001 09:29:58 -0800
From:      Eric Rescorla <ekr@speedy.rtfm.com>
To:        simon@surf.org.uk
Cc:        Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD box as Airport replacement?
Message-ID:  <kjofx6ozmx.fsf@romeo.rtfm.com>
In-Reply-To: Simon Loader's message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:06:11 %2B0000"
References:  <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010117084116.A22875@drella.newsof.com> <20010117165843.A58911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3A65D103.D815E92@herculeez.com>

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Simon Loader <simon@herculeez.com> writes:

> Rasputin wrote:
> > 
> > * Andrew Wyllie <wyllie@dilex.net> [010117 16:43]:
> > > Hi Rasputin,
> > >
> > > I bought the Orinoco (Lucent WaveLAN cards - the "Gold" version ).
> > > I used an old 486/100 with 16MB ram and a 500MB drive and this paper:
> > >
> > >       http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html
> > >
> > > It works great.   My base station is in the basement and I can use it
> > > from all over the house and part way down the street ( the cards say
> > > they work up to 1700 feet - outside ).
> > >
> > 
> > Cheers Andrew, that'll do me fine. One more question:
> >         With a range like that, how do you stop Evil Granny Smith
> > at number 23 from sniffing your network traffic?
> > 
> > Is there crypto built into the IEEE802.11 spec?
> > And is it any good?
> > 
> 
> With the gold version there is I think silver doesnt 
They both have it but it's not very good.

The silver is ostensibly 56-bit and the gold is ostensibly 128
bit but it's done badly and thus relatively easy to compromise.

-Ekr


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