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Date:      Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:11:15 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: affordable wireless 
Message-ID:  <200009051611.e85GBFU16170@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:34:46 EDT." <14773.1158.657375.297666@onceler.kciLink.com> 

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Even at 128 bits, WEP encryption is, at best, rather weak. The right
answer is to use strong encryption for everything.

OpenSSH is now a standard part of FreeBSD. Use it and stop sending
clear passwords over the net. Then you don't care about the security
of the link, only the end nodes.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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