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Old Oct 24, 2005 | 8:01 pm
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Originally Posted by ClueByFour
Just make sure it's WPA and not WEP. WEP adds (at most) an extra 10 minutes or so to the required time to break (it's tied to the strength of the IV in your particular brand of WEP). I had a friend tout to me the "security" of his wireless implementation--took about 12 minutes and a copy of auditor linux and the WEP key was cracked, sniffed the SSID, cloned his PC's MAC, dissassociated his PC, and had my laptop on the network in it's place.

WPA is another story.
A note of warning.

My Linksys WAP/router is WPA enabled - so I thought "great" - let's shift from WEP/MAC to WPA/MAC security.

But before you do anything - also make sure the wireless card in your notebook/desktop supports WPA! Mine doesn't, and it caused me all sorts of grief.
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