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Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost

To: "Battmain" <battmain@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost
From: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:11:38 -0500 (EST)
> One of the intriguing things about this utility...Even if you're not
> broadcasting your SSID, it can identify it. It can also tell what
> type of encryption is being used (if any). Based on what I know about
> security, even the latest one is capable of a brute force attack.

  It should be noted that the reason WEP has been broken is not a brute
force attack, it is a "'sploit".

  Brute forcing a 128 bit key is still extremely extremely unlikely,
especially if the information you are protecting isn't worth the time of
any great international power. ;>
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