Strom: Desperately Seeking Wireless. strom. Wi-Fi connections may be all around us, but sometimes the challenge of finding, connecting and staying connected can make one long for the days of good-old dial-up.. So I am on the road, covering the RSA conference...

as last year I was a bit of a renegade user myself, wanting to run apps that weren't part of the corporate portfolio. Ask my IT people and they will tell you tales of woe. I thought about this recently when I was attending the RSA conference and was listening...

at all, WEP's main problems came from the cryptographic weakness of its encryption mechanism. As this nicely written explanation by RSA Security points out, WEP's key problem is that the keys for different data packets are too similar. The TKIP, MIC and 802.1X...

As John Hering says, "Our goal is to make the public more aware of wireless security issues and bad policies. Bluetooth is wide open and most people have no idea what can be done to their devices." Related Articles RSA Conference 2005: Security Pros Huddle...

contains probably more than you’d ever want to know about EAP, WPA and WPA2! Configuring authentication can be a daunting and expensive task for networking professionals, let alone home networkers. At this year’s RSA conference in San Francisco, for example,...

Click image for more detail) A wizard (Figure 8) walked me through the process of setting up PGP Desktop and generating keys for a user. A basic 2048-bit RSA key pair is generated by default after a passphrase is entered, but any aspect of this key (such...

The IEEE 802.1x standard makes use of EAP to define an authentication framework for wireless communications.) PEAP is a joint effort undertaken by Microsoft, Cisco, and RSA, supported on the client side by Microsoft in Windows XP, and Cisco (and compatibles)...