Someone is thinking of doing a community network with Wireless LAN. WEP seems to offer little in this environment, so thinking of replacing it with IP based encryption - sort of a public PKI. Assuming we can get users to switch of non-IP protocols on their client PCs (I know it is hard to right click network neighbourhood and pick properties), do we lose any security at layer two by not using WEP? i.e. Are we more vulnerable to some other types of attack - I'm guessing mostly DoS if any more are possible. But hey they can probably DoS more profitably by stealing the antennas from the relays and selling them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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