[TriLUG] why not IPSec for encryption for wifi

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 08:54:22 EDT 2006


No likely with WPA.  And with with my next door neighbor having an open AP
he refuses to protect.

On 7/26/06, Jason <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
>
> > But maybe I'll go ahead and set it back up again.  Heck, why not?  But
> then
> > again, why?
>
> I guess the reason WHY is because if someone hooks up to YOUR AP and
> starts
> downloading Britney Spears latest and/or kiddie pr0n, the RIAA/FBI
> come looking for you because according to your ISP, it came from your ip
> address.
>
> Jason
>
>
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > On 7/25/06, Jason <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >that and the ipsec rfc is loosely interpreted by various vendors..
> > >
> > >from: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1490451
> > >
> > >"After years of use on the Internet, there are a bewildering variety of
> > >incompatible VPN
> > >programs. Even using open standards, such as the combination of L2TP
> and
> > >IPSec, an Internet
> > >Engineering Task Force (IETF) (define) proposed standard, doesn't
> > >guarantee that one company's
> > >L2TP/IPSec package will work with another's. Any given package,
> properly
> > >deployed, will work
> > >better than ordinary WEP, but they're not universal solutions."
> > >
> > >Jason
> > >
> > >On Tue, Jul 25, 2006
> > >at 09:15:35PM -0400, John Broome wrote: > On 7/25/06, Joseph Mack NA3T
> <
> > >jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> > >> >I just found out the IPSec works with ipv4 (I last played
> > >> >with ipv6 about 8yrs ago and dropped it when I realised I
> > >> >could only talk to myself with ipv6).
> > >> >
> > >> >IPSec seems to handle the encryption that WEP and WPA are
> > >> >doing. Why isn't IPSec used instead of WEP and WPA?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Wardriving around my neighborhood i see that joe and jane public
> can't
> > >> get a grasp on wep/wpa.  Throwing ipsec in there, along with setting
> > >> it up on the router/client would probably be a little much to ask.
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