WEP or WPA-PSK or WPA Encryption

[Bahumat]

Just reading a bit about all 3 and I wanted to know what you thought were the best for Wireless.

WEP seems to be the least secure. WPA-PSK looks like a home version of WPA? However all this talk of Denial of Service is making it hard to decide which I should use.

Should I use WPA-PSK or just plain old WPA Encryption?

 

[ST^]

If you don't know what plain WPA is then you'll not be wanting to use it.

WPA-PSK.

 

[Bahumat]

If you don't know what plain WPA is then you'll not be wanting to use it.

WPA-PSK.

Haha I had a look and it said WPA-PSK was easier to setup, but to avoid using a stupidly simple 'abc123' password (not that i would) as that'd be no more secure than WEP.

 

[nath]

Yup, the original WPA-PSK can be dictionary-hacked, i.e. broken with bruteforce guesswork so use that with a strong (read: annoyingly obscure) password and you'll be fine. WEP is pretty much completely pointless now.

 

[Bahumat]

Yup, the original WPA-PSK can be dictionary-hacked, i.e. broken with bruteforce guesswork so use that with a strong (read: annoyingly obscure) password and you'll be fine. WEP is pretty much completely pointless now.

haha yeah. I chose a password something like 'A,0fF#p2Iut!,010sF.'

 

[Embattle]

Using WPA2-PSK myself, with a rather large number.

 

[SheepCow]

WPA2-PSK with registered MAC addresses here, bring on the paranoia!

 

[ramathorn]

Use WPA(2 if you can) and AES instead of TKIP with a reasonable password and you'll be fine

WEP is hackable in ~60 seconds

 

[MYstIC G]

Just realised I'd never changed this on my O2 box. Glad I spotted this thread!

 

[Zenith.UK]

+1 here for WPA2 + AES + strong alphanumeric password + registered MAC addresses. You can't reasonably do much more to secure your home network.
Some paranoid places have intrusion detection hardware to detect and locate attempts to log into the network. I've seen some in action and it's scarily efficient.

 

[Bahumat]

What's the difference between AES and TKIP?

 

[MYstIC G]

TKIP was broken wasn't it?

 

[GReaper]

TKIP is essentially used for wifi encryption as an upgrade for those old devices which used WEP, devices which don't have any chip for hardware acceleration of AES - so they could potentially be upgraded to use WPA with just software/firmware updates.

Unless you've got old devices which don't support it, set your router to WPA2-PSK mode, allowing only CCMP (AES), avoid TKIP!

 

[Bahumat]

Cool beans, I used WPA2-PSK with AES. Thanks for the help

 

[Bodhi]

Wireless is the work of Satan.


That is all.

 

[Chilly]

cables

 

[FuzzyLogic]

They needs testin'