[kismac] WPA-TKIP, Kismac, and my network

From: Glen MacPherson <tuffimak@xxxxxxxxx>
To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:10:52 -0800

Hi Again.

I fired up my network yesterday, using a Linksys WRT54G, configured to use WPA with TKIP encryption (using pre-shared key), using a long-ass random passphrase, deciding to leave my broadcast (non-hidden) SSID at 100 ms, but I'm going to play with that setting. MACs are filtered. My iBook airport software describes my network as WPA-Personal, and it very slickly joined the network. Using a different machine I aimed Kismac at it, noticing that WPA Managed was correctly identified, seeing my iBook as a client, and that my Linksys cycled through a certain range of channels.

1. Apart from a colossal brute-force, and assuming that Kismac is the sharpest knife in most toolkits, is my network secure enough to begin transmitting confidential research data?

2. Does Kismac (perhaps internally) differentiate between WPA-TKIP and WPA-AES?

Cheers.

Glen

Follow-Ups:

[kismac] Re: WPA-TKIP, Kismac, and my network
From: Brad Knowles

References:
- [kismac] [OpenSVN] r54 committed: KisMACng/KisMAC.xcode/mick.mode1KisMACng/KisMAC.xcode/m
  - From: mick . bi
- [kismac] Re: [OpenSVN] r53 userexperience
  - From: siddhart
- [kismac] Large files/nos of APs
  - From: ard jonker
- [kismac] Re: Large files/nos of APs
  - From: Michael Rossberg
- [kismac] Re: Large files/nos of APs
  - From: ard jonker

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