Re: Securing an Ad Hoc Network
- From: Lem <lemp40@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:26:28 -0500
Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote:
In article <883A360F-D0D9-4A1F-893C-70F80F1BCF3C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, AmyM
<AmyM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am using XP Pro on 2 notebooks. I have just set them up on a peer-to-peer connection with each other. The data encryption is set to WEP, however from what I am reading this is a vulnerable method. These notebooks will be used in meeting environments where corporate espionage is a concern. Is there any way for me to enhance the security of these two units and still remain wireless? Perhaps make the network itself invisible? Thank you in advance.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 supports the more secure WPA and WPA2 data
encryption standards. If the wireless network adapters in the
notebooks support WPA or WPA2, use it. If they don't, consider
replacing them.
I could be wrong, but as far as I am aware,
Neither WPA-PSK nor WPA2-PSK, regardless of the encryption algorithm being TKIP or AES, is supported in XP in ad hoc mode.
In Vista, WPA2-PSK with AES is supported in ad hoc mode. WPA2-PSK with TKIP and WPA-PSK with either TKIP or AES are not supported.
IN XP sp1 there was an option for "WPA-None", but from what I understand, that (a) wasn't much, if any, more secure than WEP, and (b) is no longer available in sp2.
If I am wrong, I'd appreciate a link to some official documentation that shows WPA-PSK supported in ad hoc mode. I don't have a wireless computer here, so I can't test it empirically.
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