Thread: WiFi app, cracking gaining WEP key from tablet?
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2008-04-17 , 23:38
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Originally Posted by paps View Post
FYI for anyone that doesn't already realize it, but WEP, WPA, PSK, hiding SSID or MAC filtering is all a waste of time. It's all hackable today and it only gives a false sense of security. The best we can do is to encrypt everything or start talking in pig latin to throw off hackers.

Isn't PSK a type of auth/encryption for WPA? So it doesn't make sense talking about them as alternatives.

And if the best thing we can do is encrypt everything, why did you just say it's a waste of time to encrypt everything?

WPA, even PSK, is as I understand it rather strong at the moment, as long as you use a properly obscure and long key, so you're not in the rainbow tables, or caught early in a brute-force attack.