From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Prabhunath G <gprabhunath@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: WEP/WPA/WPA2 implementation in software
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:32:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <119646.1379079132@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:23:22 +0530." <CACPKTAM-mtTS7QVSq817TQ11dS-cLA+nKgXF6yDGYvxw9rhucw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:23:22 +0530, Prabhunath G said:
> Suppose there is no hardware support for
> encryption/decryption for Wi-Fi devices
1) Do not use WEP. It's busted. It's *known* busted. You transmit
packets for more than a minute or so using WEP, you may as well not
bother with crypto at all. Yes, it's really that busted.
2) You're much better off spending the $15 to get a wireless card
that actually has hardware WPA2 support on it. The devices are
cheap, there's no reason to inflict pain on yourself.
I'd not be at all surprised if a card that doesn't have crypto
support isn't *also* lacking other hardware support for WPA/WPA2
So while it may well be *possible* to do it in software, I'd have
to rank it as one of the more masochistic ideas I've heard in a
long time.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 11:53 WEP/WPA/WPA2 implementation in software Prabhunath G
2013-09-13 13:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2013-09-13 14:24 ` Oleksij Rempel
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