Re: 128 bit WEP

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:42:13 -0600, Ignoramus14384 wrote:

On 2007-12-27, Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ignoramus7897 <ignoramus7897@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2007-12-26, Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ignoramus4611 <ignoramus4611@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Is 128 bit wep any more secure than 64 bit wep?

This is in context of an apartment building.

The wifi router in question, unfortunately does not support WPA.

How much security do its owners really have?

As a previous post says, look at
http://www.aircrack-ng.org
It claims 3-5 min is enough time to collect enough info ( using
active techniques) to crack 128 bit WEP.
Of course your attacker must want to crack you,and must have the
tools to do
so. Unfortunately neither of those are under your control. Thus, yes,
WEP is better than nothing. But if y our attacker is determined, it
is not much better than nothing. If he is not, then you should be
fine.

I think that I will start looking for a new WPA capable wifi router.
This is very unfortunately, as they are unable to set it up by
themselves.

Maybe if you were to tell us what your attack threat was, we could help
you more. Ie, if you are worried that the other apartment dwellers will
connect to the internet via your router and dsl connection and hog the
whole bandwidth, then simple WEP is probably sufficient to discourage
them. After using it and discovering that it is not sufficient (ie
finding that your apartment neighbours are using your bandwidth and
using up your quota of bytes transfered from your ISP) then you can
escalate to buying a new wireless router. Or you can simply disable
wireless and use wired connections. Or you can buy a new router ($20 on
boxing week sales).

WPA is not that much more difficult than WEP on Linux.

Who are "they"?


They are my parents. They stubbornly refuse to do system administration.
My dad has used computers since the 60s and yet does not want to learn
sysadmin stuff etc. Whateverr.

The threat model is that some resident of their apartments would abuse
their bandwidth.

i

They aren't running any servers so you can close all of their ports on
their firewall. A firewall plus WEP should be enough for their needs.
.

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