My last post was about wireless encryption so I want to stay in the ball park. Now days, cable is kind of outdated. As technology evolves, wireless communications are pretty much becoming the standard. More people are going wireless, which means that more people are becoming vulnerable to wireless attacks. There are two main types of wireless encryption algorithm for your wireless router: WEP and WPA/WPA2.
WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. Sorry but I will not bother going into detail why not to use WEP. When it first came out, it was the most secure form. Now it is the least secure. Anyone who knows what type of encryption they can implement in their router will avoid at all costs using WEP. The passkey to be able log into the router/network is easily cracked by free tools such as AIRCRACK-NG. If you know you are running WEP but have the option of using WP2, go ahead.
The second method is WAP or Wi-Fi Protected Access. It offers TKIP, which is a 128-bit per-packet key, meaning that it dynamically generates a new key for each packet, different from WEP’s 40-bit encryption. It is commonly used in enterprise sized companies that use wireless and most people will not even try to break into it simply because it is extremely hard and tedious. My top choice of security setup is:
WPA2 TKIP-AES
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