From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:37:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F92E134B-8949-497C-95F5-8E5D5DEBDE8D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901290940p3ab050cep2e5bd985ee901fde@mail.gmail.com>
On 29 Jan 2009, at 17:40, Grant wrote:
> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't
> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets
> hacked.
What makes you think your WPA key is likely to get hacked?
As I'm reading it, if you use a long random password & unique SSID WPA
is quite secure.
It should be possible to implement WPA2 on a Linux-based AP. I would
use 64 random hex digits for your PSK & stop worrying about it.
MAC address filtering is worthless. I would install a DHCP server &
save yourself the hassle of setting IP addresses on any devices that
are used elsewhere. Anyone who breaks WPA (which I consider extremely
unlikely assuming the criteria I've described) is not going to be
troubled by such measures.
Stroller.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-30 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-29 17:40 [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network Grant
2009-01-29 17:47 ` Dan Cowsill
2009-01-29 17:50 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-29 20:30 ` Grant
2009-01-29 20:39 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-29 20:39 ` Grant
2009-01-29 20:48 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-29 20:58 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-29 21:02 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-29 22:15 ` Grant
2009-01-30 16:25 ` Grant
2009-02-03 21:22 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-29 18:11 ` Mark Knecht
2009-01-29 20:11 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-30 22:37 ` Stroller [this message]
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