I agree, WPA-PSK-TKIP with a 30+ character password using all characters (this isn't a hex key) is fairly good. I'm using WPA2-PSK-CCMP, which uses AES instead of TKIP. Windows XP supports WPA2 after a hotfix. Thanks, Ryberg, Nicholas wrote: >Thanks for the reply Josh! > >-----Original Message----- >From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org] >On Behalf Of Josh Welch >Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:20 AM >To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org >Subject: Re: [tcwug-list] Security and wireless - was E-Democracy >discussion > > > >Ryberg, Nicholas wrote: ><snippy> > > >>As a home user who wants to lock down his home wireless network, >>what's the easiest way to do this? I would guess that WPA2 with the >>alphabet soup of accompanying acronyms is secure, but is it workable >>for a normal end user? Is WPA sufficient? >> >>Do I need a backroom server to manage all that stuff? >> >> >> ></snippy> > >Fascinating...technical questions on a technical list. > >WPA for a home user should be quite sufficient. You can use pre-shared >keys and still be in the good enough realm if you use a somewhat strong >key. Pre-shared keys would remove the need for some sort of backend >server. > >Josh > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >Minnesota tcwug-list at tcwug.org >http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tcwug-list at tcwug.org >http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > > > -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>