Re: Secure and unsecure install problem

Not when using proper key exchange mechanisms.


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:37:57 -0800, Casey Halverson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> "End-to-end encryption" is still subject to man-in-the-middle attacks.
> Best avoid the entire situation.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Morgan Davis
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:34 PM
> > To: SeattleWireless Talk List
> > Subject: Re: Secure and unsecure install problem
> >
> > You're sending unencrypted traffic to the internet?
> >
> > The goal of WEP here is to prevent the guests from sniffing
> > the traffic between machines on the office network and to
> > prevent them from directly accessing/attacking them by
> > preventing them from associating.
> >
> > Anything you send out to the internet is already insecure and
> > subject to sniffing/spoofing. I personally make sure anything
> > I care about is encrypted at the network, transport or
> > application layer (POP3/S, SMTP/S, S/MIME, SSL, SSH, IPSec).
> > My general web browsing isn't all that interesting nor sensitive.
>
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