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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. The real question is by dreamer8815 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How long is it going to take my neighbor to upgrade and lock me out of my stol^^^^borrwed internet access.

    --
    "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
  2. Can we upgrade firmware ? by phoxix · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Or do we have to buy new products ?

    I'm finding those wireless encryption thing to be a load of bullshit.

    It seems like everytime they finally seem to get the crypto part down (WPA), we get something new (WPA2). I think I'll wait for WPA12938491849034 before upgrading any of my hardware.

    Thankfully we have IPsec. (if only the OS-X version didn't suck so much)

    Sunny Dubey