[access-uk] Re: wireless security
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:18:35 +0100
WEP is secure in the sense that it will stop your neighbours
accidentally straying onto your connection but WEP is nothing to a
determined hacker and will not stop them for long. WEP can be broken
relatively easily inside a few minutes. WPA encryption should be used
wherever possible. It should be no more difficult to set up WPA than
WEP so there's nothing to loose.
The degree to which your system is really secure also depends on the
length of your key. WPA keys at 20 characters are reasonably safe and
those of 24 characters and greater are considered sufficiently difficut
to deterr all but a malevolent state sponsored attack on your connection
assuming at some point the power of quantum computing is made available
to them.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Technical Support
Sight and Sound Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James Scholes
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:08 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: wireless security
The BT hubs only use WEP, its secure, but not as secure as WPA. Just
make
sure that when using WEP that you use shared encryption.
On Monday, April 14, 2008 10:52 PM, Saq wrote:
|| Hi. If your hub is wireless, it should have a wireless key on the
|| back. Generally the BT Home Hubs are secure by default.
|| Original message:
||| Hi,
||
||| the laptop now seems to connect wirelessly however, i was wondering
||| how to set up
||| the security incription so that the network would not be accessible
||| to outside
||| computers. so could some one please give me step by step
||| instructions on how to do
||| this. i've got the bt home hub.
||
||| thanks, Husna
||
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