Wireless ethernet?

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On 13 Aug 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Don't use WEP.. It's broken, completely.  If I can _hear_ your
> base station I can break your keys in a matter of minutes (well,
> after I 'hear' a few million packets, but that only takes an hour
> or so on a busy LAN).
>
> WEP is broken.  You might as well keep it off and just use IPsec
> and ssh.

I'm more-than-new to this (I have ordered, but not received, my wireless
gear), but isn't the purpose of WEP to authenticate the client, not
encrypt the connection?  I can't vouch for how crackable WEP is, but using
ssh over wireless does not help authenticate the client, so it's not
really a substitute.

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