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PPS.

> "If person A is using WPA with a strong passphrase, their data are
> secure." Yes, those are my words and I stand by them. Tell me, in what
> cup of tea did you derive the formula secure=unbreakable?
>
> If you have a formula to show an underlying weakness in WPA, believe
> me,
> I and several thousand mathematicians working at the NSA would love to
> see it.
> OK lets tackle this one thing at a time.

- If you have so much faith in WPA you believe it to be secure, for

it to be secure it has to be unbreakable.

- People thorough history have erroneously believed they have

invented secure systems. All were wrong. The German Enigma system is

a classic example of this.

- WPA has 3 main weaknesses that I know of. First, it does not offer

security support for IBSS. Second, WPA does not provide for

pre-authentication for multiple access points on the network. Third

but by no means last WPA does not support the advanced encryption

standard.

- If WPA is secure as you say why are they developing WPA2 it's

successor?

- As far as your NSA argument goes. I bet it would come as a great

relief to all leading nations security staff NSA/MI6 etc to know that

they can stop throwing millions of dollars/pounds/yen into there

quest for the ultimate system. It can now be bought at PC World for

the same price as a CD burner.

PS.

Whilst you are looking up Secure in a dictionary I would also suggest

you look up overconfident.

Right on Andrew and this is precisely the point that I am leading up to with Entropy. It is so computationally infeasible to crack AES at this point in time, that my neighbor or anyone else who wants to see my Wi-Fi data will simple break in and steal my computer.

As for home security, I leave that in the hands of my daschund. She is far better equipped than I to see, hear, and smell things that go bump in the night.

Would you like to take a crack at breaking into the system that I described in my last post. Remember, stealing the computer does not count:-)

AndrewJ wrote:

The FBI doesn't know a lot of things but one thing they do know is almost 6/10 homes will be burgled over the next 10 years. It's way more likely you'll lose data to an intruder of your home than an intruder of your secure network.