March 6, 2008

Don’t WEP Me! Ubuntu (and Others) Are Safer With WPA.

Category: Experiences — Roger @ 5:15 pm —

One of the readers of another post “Using Ubuntu to Crack WEP“, sent me this video:

Therefore, this is a “quick“, follow-up to that older post.

As I’m sure many of you might appreciate, WEP may probably not be the best solution to securing WiFi. Simply because it’s become mainstream and there are tones of tools (just Google them) that almost automate the process. I’d like to suggest that WPA…2 is one of the most secure. Why? I can’t find any tools that crack WPA2.

Part of the issue (I think) is that not too many devices support it yet. However, if you’re unable to garner WPA2 devices for your Linux (Ubuntu) network, WPA should suffice as a better solution to WEP.spacer_gif2 Dont WEP Me! Ubuntu (and Others) Are Safer With WPA.

For those looking to enable WPA2 in Ubuntu, read here: HOWTO: Wireless Security - WPA1, WPA2, LEAP, etc.
For WPA, there’s a (really) good guide here: Enable WPA Wireless access point in Ubuntu Linux

I’m still using WEP by the way, but will switch to WPA over the weekend.

If anyone knows WPA2 cards devices that work with Ubuntu, please let me know.

Thanks! :)

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