[TriLUG] why not IPSec for encryption for wifi

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 08:56:11 EDT 2006


Or just set up a radius capture and release portal with ssl password
encryption.  You won't have to mess with VPN clients or VPN servers that
way.  IPSec just seems way overkill for this.  But it's a fun projec
nevertheless.

Or run wires.

On 7/26/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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