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Comments on news posted 2004-06-24 10:20:05: Members of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards board will be meeting today to possibly approve the 802.11i standard. The upgrade adds the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) security protocol to the various 802. ..

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Lumberjack
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Newport News, VA

Security good

This is good that the IEEE is working to get things accomplished at a good pace. But once its ratified I wonder how long it will take for the vendors to implement.
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to forum · permalink · · 2004-06-24 09:45:58 · Reply to this

smp606

join:2002-01-16
PA		 Yes! hopefully vendors will implement this within a month or two...
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BigARR
You Can Call Me Al
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MI, USA

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said by Lumberjack See Profile:
This is good that the IEEE is working to get things accomplished at a good pace. But once its ratified I wonder how long it will take for the vendors to implement.
And...when they do will it require new hardware or just a firmware upgrade?
to forum · permalink · · 2004-06-24 09:52:04 · Reply to this


Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02		 The majority of chips shipped by 2002 should have enough processing power to be able to handle it with just a firmware upgrade.
to forum · permalink · · 2004-06-24 09:54:39 · Reply to this

DSLrgm
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Oak Park, MI

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802.11i times

I worked on the standard.

There are not a lot of differences between WPA and 802.11i.

Any hardware that works with WPA will work with 802.11i.

The spec has been stable for almost a year. Changes were cleaning up the text.

A lot of vendors should have code out quickly, as will MS (for XP and Win2000).
to forum · permalink · · 2004-06-24 10:17:52 · Reply to this

iffy

join:2004-02-07
Columbus, OH		 WPA was never supported under W2K, without third party software. Hopefully this will change with 802.11i, but I wouldn't count on it.
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wavguy2003
370's Forever
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Saint Charles, IL		 Not completely true. Microsoft released WPA Pre-Shared key support for W2K last February.
to forum · permalink · · 2004-06-24 13:16:05 · Reply to this

ryjovern

join:2004-01-20
Cloquet, MN		More information

»wifinetnews.com/archives/002594.html

Go hear for more information on 802.11i.
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Zomniak

join:2001-01-08
Frisco, TX
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What will change?

I've been using WPA-PSK with AES encryption for over a year with various hardware that all talk to each other:

Linksys WAP54G
Linksys WRT54G
Dell Truemobile 1450
D-Link A/B/G PCMCIA card
D-Link DWL-G120 (USB)
Linksys WPC54GS

Everything above uses broadcom chips except for the D-Links, which use Atheros and Prism chips.

So, what is going to be different if I upgrade to 802.11i drivers?
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Lumberjack
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Newport News, VA		 Arg. Too bad Linksys/Broadcomm don't publish Linux drivers. Or at least the API specs.
to forum · permalink · · 2004-06-26 00:49:00 · Reply to this
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