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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v3

-12 Glossary

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node equipped with WEP. Warchalkers also draw identifiers above the symbols to indicate the password that

can be used to access the node, which can easily be obtained with sniffer software.

As a recent development, the debate over the legality of warchalking is still going on.

The practice stems from the U.S. Depression-era culture of wandering hobos who would make marks

outside of homes to indicate to other wanderers whether the home was receptive to drifters or was

inhospitable.

War Driving

War driving is the act of locating and possibly exploiting connections to wireless local area networks while

driving around a city or elsewhere. To do war driving, you need a vehicle, a computer (which can be a

laptop), a wireless Ethernet card set to work in promiscuous mode, and some kind of an antenna which can

be mounted on top of or positioned inside the car. Because a wireless LAN may have a range that extends

beyond an office building, an outside user may be able to intrude into the network, obtain a free Internet

connection, and possibly gain access to company records and other resources.

Some people have made a sport out of war driving, in part to demonstrate the ease with which wireless

LANs can be compromised. With an omnidirectional antenna and a geophysical positioning system (GPS),

the war driver can systematically map the locations of 802.11b wireless access points.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)

Basic wireless security provided by Wi-Fi. In some instances, WEP may be all a home or small-business

user needs to protect wireless data. WEP is available in 40-bit (also called 64-bit), or in 108-bit (also called

128-bit) encryption modes. As 108-bit encryption provides a longer algorithm that takes longer to decode, it

can provide better security than basic 40-bit (64-bit) encryption.

Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)

Another name for IEEE 802.11b. Products certified as Wi-Fi are interoperable with each other even if they

are from different manufacturers. A user with a Wi-Fi product can use any brand of access point with any

other brand of client hardware that is built to the Wi-Fi standard.

Wi-Fi Alliance (formerly WECA – Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance)

The Wi-Fi Alliance is a nonprofit international association formed in 1999 to certify interoperability of

wireless Local Area Network products based on IEEE 802.11 specification. Currently the Wi-Fi Alliance

has 193 member companies from around the world, and 509 products have received Wi-Fi certification since

certification began in March of 2000. The goal of the Wi-Fi Alliance's members is to enhance the user

experience through product interoperability (www.weca.net).

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)

WPA is a security technology for wireless networks that improves on the authentication and encryption

features of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). In fact, WPA was developed by the networking industry in

response to the shortcomings of WEP.

One of the key technologies behind WPA is the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). TKIP addresses

the encryption weaknesses of WEP. Another key component of WPA is built-in authentication that WEP

does not offer. With this feature, WPA provides roughly comparable security to VPN tunneling with WEP,

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