[TriLUG] why not IPSec for encryption for wifi

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jason wrote:

> that and the ipsec rfc is loosely interpreted by various vendors..

Sorry - I didn't pose my question real well. I should have 
said

"when the wifi people first decided on WEP (and later WPA), 
why didn't they all say instead 'we're going to use the 
foobar version/implementation (or our implementation) of 
IPSec'?."

I mean IPSec already existed and instead they chose the 
dreadful hack of WEP. I understand that WPA needs encryption 
hardware on the wifi card to handle the extra processing. 
With IPSec you could have left the CPU to do it. With both 
WEP and IPSec you have to enter a key and I can't imagine 
that setup would be much different for Joe and Jane Public.

Joe

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