Best advice area on WPA with TKIP ??

could anyone advise on the best advice area for WPA with TKIP

"Poet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> could anyone advise on the best advice area for WPA with TKIP

Right here of course. What would you like to know

Yes just the vital steps in creating a WPA with TKIP connection.
Have done WEP but WPA etc eludes me.

Thanks

"Airhead" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Poet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > could anyone advise on the best advice area for WPA with TKIP
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> Right here of course. What would you like to know
>

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:43:46 +0800, "Poet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Yes just the vital steps in creating a WPA with TKIP connection.
>Have done WEP but WPA etc eludes me.

Ahem. TKIP is just an authentication method. It will work with
either a pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) or with a RADIUS server. I don't
have a clue what you have to work with so I'll point you to a site
that's close.
http://www.hansenonline.net/Networking/
See Securing WLAN parts 1 and 2.

This might also be of interest. Stolen from a posting by Lars Hanson:

Authentication Encryption 802.1x checkbox?
Method
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Open/Shared None No.
Open/Shared WEP Yes, on by default.
WPA TKIP/AES Yes, always enabled.
WPA-PSK TKIP/AES No.

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:43:46 +0800, Poet spoketh

>Yes just the vital steps in creating a WPA with TKIP connection.
>Have done WEP but WPA etc eludes me.
>
>Thanks
>

There's really not much difference when it comes to configuration. The
biggest problem is actually getting hardware that supports it.

Using WPA-PSK with TKIP is simply a matter of picking those options on
the Wireless access point and the wireless clients, and then giving them
all the same Pre-Shared Key that'll be used for initial authentication.

Although Jeff is seldom wrong, he got his wires crossed a little. TKIP
is the encryption piece. WPA currently supports two methods of
encryption: TKIP and AES. TKIP is the same as WEP, but it uses dynamic
key exchange to change the encryption keys on a regular basis, thus
resolving the problem with the static WEP keys.

Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 06:51:50 -0500, Lars M. Hansen
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>Although Jeff is seldom wrong,

I make lots of mistakes. However, my batting average and guesswork
are fairly good. This mistake was caused by posting at midnight after
a rather difficult day. Hmmm... It's almost midnight again. Time for
me to post some more wrong answers.

>he got his wires crossed a little. TKIP
>is the encryption piece.

Oops. Y'er right. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKIP

>WPA currently supports two methods of
>encryption: TKIP and AES.
>TKIP is the same as WEP, but it uses dynamic
>key exchange to change the encryption keys on a regular basis, thus
>resolving the problem with the static WEP keys.
>
>Lars M. Hansen
>http://www.hansenonline.net
>(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:13:52 GMT, Jeff Liebermann
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>I make lots of mistakes. However, my batting average and guesswork
>are fairly good.

Great reasoning, Jeff and nicely put.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:53:30 GMT, Doug Jamal <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:13:52 GMT, Jeff Liebermann
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>>I make lots of mistakes. However, my batting average and guesswork
>>are fairly good.

>Great reasoning, Jeff and nicely put.

Oh, not really. It's kinda a tradeoff between quality and quantity.
I post LOTS of answers. Most are correct. However, if you happen to
read one of my screwups, I look much like an idiot. Even my wrong
answers sound so good, that they're almost believable. In any case,
perfection is difficult on usenet as many of my answers are no better
than deductive guesswork based on insufficient information. I gave up
keeping score long ago as. I can't seem to get the new and improved
Google Groups to disclose how many postings I've made over the years
but I think it was about 10,000. My guess is about 50-100 are wrong.
That's not too horrible. About 2,000 are probably off topic. Oh
well.

Challenge for the weekend...clean up the phone room:
http://www.LearnByDestroying.com/pic.../IMG_0107.html
Behind every wireless installation, hides a mess of wires.



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