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WEP Gets A Bit Stronger

Posted by timothy on from the still-not-for-the-nuclear-codes-please dept.

gmr2048 writes: "CNN is reporting that RSA has helped develop "Fast Packet Keying" to strengthen WEP security. More info can be found at the RSA page. Damn, and I'm still working on my Pringles can antenna."

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  1. this is good until the goverment squashes by paulydavis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Homeland security, Homeland security, Homeland security... this is the rallying banter of many in Washington. While I hold a concern for this also, I worry that our RIGHTS (inalienable) are going to be sacrificed. Should we expect Senate hearing soon on banning heavy encryption? Of course the business lobby might acutely help us here.

  2. There is no security without physical security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is no security without physical security. And barring protecting the feds from installing keyboard sniffers and other constitution violating passphrase snatcher and tempest EMI amplifier trojans, you need:

    CHALLENGE RESPONSE.

    Without two way challenge response there is no way to prove the "system" your WEP is seemingly connecting to is not really a NSA-NRO van parked in the street that acts as a go between in the chain.

    a covert liason.

    This crap by PKP-RSA is nothing but more foolhardy layers of swill that does not fundamentally prevent a 3rd party intercept.

    It reeks of DoD funding to me, more so than all the proven NAI payoffs and moles.