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Re: Custom Wireless Solution

  • From: Simon Lockhart
  • Date: Mon Apr 23 04:37:01 2001 
>
>How secure is this connection? Does 802.11
>provide security implicitly?

802.11 provides basic authentication with SSID's, and encryption with WEP 
(Wireless Encryption Protocol). Neither is particularly hard to crack, but 
it does protect you from casual intrusion.

Simon
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