[TriLUG] wireless security

[Jos Purvis]

Several good solutions have been proposed. One thing you might explore 
is the use of WPA with Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK), which seems to offer, 
from the papers I've seen, greater security than WEP without being too 
onerous. From there, you can expand into things like tying the backend 
to a RADIUS server for authentication (users enter their login ID & 
password to authenticate to the network--or this can be single-sign-on 
in some cases), or even exploring the use of digital certificates.

There are some good papers released recently (Google is your friend) 
that detail setting all of that up with open-source tools like 
FreeRADIUS and OpenCA. Good luck, and let us know how it works out! 
(*k0F*TriLUG presentation*k0F*)

		--Jos

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