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State of Secure Wireless Networking?

Mr. Sketch asks: "At my office, they want me to add a wireless network and it seems like it could be possible to do it in a secure way, but I'm not 100% confident. The setup I was thinking of was 802.11g only (no backward 802.11b compatibility), WPA-PSK with AES encryption with a 15 character password consisting of upper and lower case letters and numbers and special characters, MAC filtering, no ssid broadcast, and no default anything (ssid, passwords, etc). How secure would this network be? What type of attacks would it be vulnerable to? I haven't found any tools to crack AES, only WEP, does that mean it's secure or I just that I haven't looked hard enough? I want the wireless computers to still be able to access the computers on our network, in fact ideally, I just want it to be a wireless extension of our wired network, but only if it's secure enough. I'm sure there are plenty of other companies who want to add wireless to their network, but want to be reasonably confident that it will be secure and are unsure of the current state of wireless security."

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  1. tell me your SSID, password, subnet info, by kayen_telva · · Score: 5, Funny

    and address. I will tell you if its secure ;)

  2. Re:secure by duffbeer703 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was socially engineering the secretary the other day and had a great time. I was too sleepy afterwards to hack any networks, though.

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  3. Re:secure by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried to hack the Penthouse computer facility the other day. Their firewall consists of 2 million images of centerfolds, so I never got past that.

    Then I tried to social engineer the secretary to give me some passwords. I did manage to get some numbers from her, but they turned out to be her measurements (5'4, 120 lb, 34, 22, 33) and her phone number.

    My conclusion is that it is impossible to gain access to their computer network. And that I don't really care anymore.

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