Re: wireless lan

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:03:48AM -0400, Jason Costomiris <jcostom jasons org> wrote:
| On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:43:07PM -0700, Steve Lee wrote:
| : is it true to say that your connection is encrypted
| : only for ssh using wireless lan, and not for other
| : connection using a linksys wireless equipment?
| Depends.  Are you using WEP?  If so, all of your packets are encrypted,
| though I wouldn't call the crypto terribly strong, given the presence
| of such tools as airsnort.

Here (speaking as a sysadmin faced with user desires for wireless) we're
basicly taking the attitude that a wireless is an open channel, and thus
that all wireless stuff will be "outside" our firewall, topologically
speaking. If you want point to point security, use IPSec or ssh (myself,
I'd use both for no profoundly sane reason).

BTW, anyone know if there's a variant on an MX record to say "deliver
using SSL"?
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