Thursday, May 3, 2007

Playing with 802.11 b and g

Another sleepless night thinking of unfinished project, Wireless Authentication.

State of wireless and problems

* Wireless is coming
* WEP is broken (Cracking tool)
* allow anonymous access
* Client configuration per computer

Goals
Making it simple to reduce administrative overhead, provide real security, and minimal client configuration.

Tools/Software
choose the "libre"
*nocat
*wifidog
*m0n0wall
*pfsense
*zoneCD (free edition)

Installations and configuration please refer to their respective manuals, howtos, faqs and documentations.

In the play ground i prefer to use m0n0wall because of other features (IPSEC VPN). While playing with wireless (captive portal) i also had a chance to see and work around with VPN(IPSEC) and try to test with other hardware.

For ease of installation here is a link to m0n0wall http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=704315&rl=1