[Angstrom-distro-users] kinda OT: hardware recommendation to replace my dead Netgear MA701 (CF 802.11b and/or g)

[Walt Scrivens]

I'm confused.  Quoting from Wikipedia,
"In cryptography, TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) is a  
security protocol used in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)."
security consultant Steve Gibson has also strongly implied if not  
actually stated the same thing in his "Security Now" podcast.

Regardless of whether it is "part of" or "substitute for" WPA, I  
thought TKIP was a sufficiently strong protocol to prevent  
eavesdropping in most everyday situations.  Please correct me if I'm  
wrong in that assumption.

My AmbiCom card supports what is billed at "WPA/TKIP" with a 64 digit  
key, so it is not limited to Symbol's products.  It works well with  
Cacko and pdaXrom.  To bad I can't get it to work consistently with  
Angstrom....


Walt



On Oct 20, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Oliver Fels wrote:

> Tim Chick wrote:
>
>> Both statements are sort of untrue.
>>
>> WPA/WPA2 works fine with 802.11b
>
> All 802.11b CF cards I have come across had no support for WPA  
> included
> because the WPA specs are not defined for 802.11b.
> Some symbol cards use a similar procedure called TKIP which is however
> proprietary.
> [SNIP]

> Oliver
>
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