On The Current State of WiFi Security

An anonymous reader writes "A Flexbeta article covers the basics of WiF security. The article mentions mentions various ways of securing a WiFi network, how easy it is to crack WEP, and what the IEEE is doing about WiFi security. From the article: 'In order to address the security issues of WEP and the current Wi-Fi standards of 802.11a/b/g, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is developing a new standard that is called 802.11i. This standard was developed with security in mind. The new standard implements new security entitled Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), which takes advantage of the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), is easier to setup using a pre-shared key, and can use RADIUS authentication.'"

Comments

WPA2, not WPA

[JemVai777]

The real contender is WPA2, which employs the far stronger AES symmetric algorithm in place of RC4, and adds much-desired features such as fast roaming:

WPA2 overview.

If your hardware supports it, use WPA2. If not, settle for nothing less than WPA, as WEP is a joke and trivial to break into.

Re:It's like swimming with sharks

[jomegat]

There's a saying among scuba divers, how do you fend off a hungry shark with a 2 inch knife? You stab your buddy and swim away.

But how do you get the knife away from the shark?