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Stronger Encryption for Wi-Fi

Posted by michael on from the huff-and-puff-and-blow-the-house-down dept.

sp00 writes "The first products certified to support Wi-Fi Protected Access 2, the latest wireless security technology, were announced by the Wi-Fi Alliance on Wednesday. The Wi-Fi Alliance says WPA2 is a big improvement on earlier wireless security standards, such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), which hackers have found easy to circumvent. It includes Advanced Encryption Standard, which supports 128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit keys."

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  1. Sssssh! by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please don't tell my neighbors about this technology. Thanks. :)

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    1. Re:Sssssh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      The subject is misleading :P I thought it was secure-secure-secure-secure shell

    2. Re:Sssssh! by Hobadee · · Score: 2, Funny

      Haha! Join the club!

      I went over to my friends house and was surprised that I was getting a WiFi signal. I asked my friend, "Dude, when did you get wireless?" He was like "We didn't."

      Cue a slow grin growing over my and his faces.

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  2. Good by ergo98 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I feel I speak for wireless users everywhere when I say "Good". What more is there to say?

  3. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    The signal is traveling through open space for anyone to look at, and if you look at enough of the signal, you can find the pattern.
    Thanks for letting us know you don't have the slightest clue how encryption works. Now go play in your room, we're talking about grown-up things.

    ;)

  4. LEAK length? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How many bits is the Law Enforcement Access component of the key?

  5. Re:So... by Agent+Green · · Score: 2, Funny
    If you want to look at my GF's reciepe's or our photos, go right ahead.

    Actually, we just want to see her photos. :)
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  6. Re:Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    But what about MAC filters?

    Forget MAC filters. I want WINDOWS filters. That would stop 99% of the security problems right there.