[MLB-WIRELESS] RMIT City Campus Wireless Trials

[Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen]

At 08:52  11/12/2003 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
>i hope the authentication process is securely encrypted.  unencrypted (or
>weakly encrypted) login means that anyone with a wireless sniffer 
>(i.e.  anyone
>with a laptop and a wireless card and some free software) can easily gather
>dozens or hundreds of passwords in an hour.

I would hope so.  The ITS folk there are pretty competent. To logon you 
need pre-existing access and specific software installed.
Not that that implies encryption...





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