Hi,
WPA hit the market about 6 month ago. As it is more or less a subset of
802.11i, there will be not that many new features at least for managed
networks. Also WPA seems to be much more harder to break than WEP. I
believe you are on the save with very long pass-phrases for now.
All new equipment which is sold today is prepared for 802.11i. A simple
firmware upgrade should be enough in such cases. For laptops it is
possible to emulate 802.11i in software (like for WPA).
mick
On 11. May 2004, at 17:57 Uhr, Ray Haque wrote:
When you consider the number of 802.11B access points out there, I have a hard time believing that this new hardware will fly off the runway. I'm betting it takes a long while before these new devices begin to appear in the home and small business market.
Yet, people are taking wireless security a little more seriously these days, so I may be wrong on that. Regardless, I don't have an 802.11i Airport card, and even if Apple designed one ... I probably couldn't afford it. :-) And would it be backward compatible with an iBook series 1? One has to wonder!
-Ray
On May 11, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Lasse Jespersen wrote:
when's this going to enter the mainstream market?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/07/HNwifi_1.html -- Lasse Jespersen <elj@xxxxxxxxx> www.init6.org
