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kaisa
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faster?

Is 802.11i supposed to be faster than G?

Is AES better than WEP?

Morac

join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ

Re: faster?

802.11i has nothing to do with speeds; it only deals with security. And yes, it is much better than WEP.

kaisa
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Re: faster?

good times, thanks

kalphearion
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said by kaisa See Profile:

Is AES better than WEP?

From my understanding, AES was/is widely used for Government security of encryption. Yes AES will be better than WEP due to the fact it is more powerful. Unfortunatley, most hardware out there will not be able to handle it, and you will end up spending more money, at leaste for a home user to take advantage of it

Maybe on a business stand point, AES will benefit, but as for a home user, WEP will do the trick.

my 2cents

Brian

zoom314
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Yermo, CA

Re: faster?

said by kalphearion See Profile:
said by kaisa See Profile:

Is AES better than WEP?

From my understanding, AES was/is widely used for Government security of encryption. Yes AES will be better than WEP due to the fact it is more powerful. Unfortunatley, most hardware out there will not be able to handle it, and you will end up spending more money, at leaste for a home user to take advantage of it

Maybe on a business stand point, AES will benefit, but as for a home user, WEP will do the trick.

my 2cents

Brian

AES? What's that? It wasn't mentioned until the 2nd poster brought It up.

I belive that WPA2 is much better than WEP and AES(Whatever that is), Which is now supported by Windows XP Home & Pro. Go download the update for It If You have not already done so.

And I don't believe AES is supported by XP.

WEP do the trick? WEP is weak and has been broken from what TechTV says.
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Rhobite
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AES is an encryption method, WEP is a communications protocol. They aren't directly comparable. But 802.11i will be much more secure than WEP.
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jdmurray
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Re: faster?

It'd be more "apples and apples" to compare AES with RC4, the encryption method used by WEP.

AES succeeds 3DES as the gov'ment's encryption method of choice. A proper implementation of AES is a helluva lot more computationally efficient than 3DES. This means your PDA can now not only support WPA 2.0 but also IPSec.

Nerdtalker
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said by Rhobite See Profile:
AES is an encryption method, WEP is a communications protocol. They aren't directly comparable. But 802.11i will be much more secure than WEP.

That's good to hear, WEP is laughably insecure.
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