wireless tivo question

[pxr5]

Hey folks,

For those of you using wireless tivo connections: Does your tivo software permit the entry of multiple WEP keys? Judging from the support site, it only looks to support a single WEP key, and I (of course) use more than that in my wireless network.

Comments

maybe i'm not paranoid enuf

[twoeleven]

why do you want multiple keys? ot1h, in most places there are so many insecure wireless nets that bored and/or cheap folks will just connect to one of those rather than trying brute-force attacks on secure ones. and otoh, if you've got the subnet in public key mode, that key is only used to exchange the session keys, which seems pretty safe to me.

course, as soon as i get the last laptop a new card, we're cutting over to the yadda-yadda.g std, and i'll turn the hub's beacon off. :)

Re: maybe i'm not paranoid enuf

[twoeleven]

well, I know I'm not going to be first on anyone's list, but WEP is so damn insecure that I worry. (AirSnort, anyone?)

So I compromised with myself and did multiple key + mac filtering + firewalls on all the machines ;-)

meh. stupid computers.

Re: maybe i'm not paranoid enuf

[fengshui]

Doe two keys actually do anything? In many cryptosystems, double encryption doesn't actually provide any additional security, as there is some key C such that A(B(plaintext) <=> C(plaintext). I haven't looked into WEP, but it wouldn't surprise me if that were the case there too.

Have you turned off the SSID broadcast? That can help with security a lot, as then they can't even attempt to connect without knowing the SSID.

[niqui]

i couldn't get my tivo to play nice with my passphrase, and ended up switching the AP to allow by MAC only, which makes tivo happy.

it is probably just as useless as WEP (i honestly have not bothered to do one iota of research), but so long as i feel like i at least attempted to prevent people from mooching all my bandwidth for their bittorrentty theftiness, i'm all right with that. :-)