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Old 21st January 2005 | 16:05
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Evo
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Comparing WEP and WPA-PSK is rather academic, because AFAIK they're both fine for protecting a home W-LAN. But FWIW, it is my understanding that WPA-PSK has a human factors problem - people tend to pick a plain English key. If you can capture a valid authentication packet, you can take it home and try dictionary attacks where you iterate through possible keys until you hit the right one. It's fairly slow, 100-odd attempts per second, but very effective.

If you pick a good random passphrase (of the Zj8mqS0l variety) then WPA-PSK is very good.

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