Any news about the integration of WPA-PSK in MT RouterOS? Can I expect WPA-PSK support still this year?
Thanks so far.
Have a nice day,
canram
Use a VPN tunnel if you want higher level security and authentication on your network.
WPA-PSK is argueably better than WEP, but a VPN tunnel is the best way to encrypt data from client to endpoint (3des encryption or higher)…
My users are using a simple WLAN-Bridge which only support WEP or WPA. Behind this WLAN-Bridge, they currently use a common DSL-Router doing PPPoE. Mostly, those cheap DSL-Routers do not support any kind of encrypted vpn tunnel. Therefore, the bridge must do the encryption.
Many of my users a considering WEP as very unsecure and believe that WPA is much more secure. Therefore it´s a psychological decision to change to WPA.
Is it a very big effort to integrate WPA in MT RouterOS.
This whole WEP/WPA bull**** has gone on long enough in my opinion…
IF you have sensitive data and are transmitting it over a wireless connection, and you want it to be secure. Use a secure means of doing so!
Cable/DSL/whatever its all sent UNENCRYPTED from your PC to their edge router and out to the internet.
WEP/WPA encrypts the data from client to AP.. That’s neat.. so all I have to do is sniff the traffic coming out the ethernet interface of the AP and i just undermined your whole security policy… IF your data is that sensitive then you should be securing it from client to endpoint using a tunnel with a higher level of encryption..
WEP/WPA creates a FALSE sense of security and is a joke if you ask me. You should be advising your clients that these standards are useless and do nothing but negatively impact bandwidth and throughput.
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ALSO most residential grade DSL/Broadband routers support PPTP..
I know the big names do, Linksys, Netgear, etc.. and its becoming more and more standard on residential routers.
MT supports IPSEC/L2TP/PPTP tunneling and so much more.
Many routers support PPTP. But I don´t know any non expensive consumer router that supports “MPPE-Encrypted” PPTP or PPPoE.
You´re right in your decision that WEP/WPA are not secure enough. But there´s no way to teach this a “normal, standard” user.