From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 17 9:42: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA1A37B400; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA27000; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA13702; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200101171741.JAA13702@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: BSD box as Airport replacement? In-Reply-To: <20010117165843.A58911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> "from Rasputin at Jan 17, 2001 04:58:43 pm" To: Rasputin Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:41:44 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rasputin writes: > Is there crypto built into the IEEE802.11 spec? Yes. > And is it any good? Sort of. One problem is that all clients must have the same shared secret, which means it's not much of a secret. Also there are known-plaintext attacks in certain situations, like mixed cells (some clients encrypting, some not). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message