2014-03-10 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Can portal be secure? https

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From: Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
Message Hash: 27a674cb5214b1cc6b6c20f7e9dffb2fb0c871aaa36e4b557204c42d2123d97b
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Reply To: <201403102332.11876.solbu@solbu.net>
UTC Datetime: 2014-03-10 15:57:31 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:57:31 +1000

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Johnny Solbu <so***u@solbu.net> wrote:

> On Monday 10. March 2014 21.50, Timothy White wrote:
> > It's not going over a network you don't control
>
> Yes it does. No one controls the air in which it flows. In a physical
> network one have to hook into a physical wire or a switch, while the air
> traffic can be sniffed and with the right tools (such as a Really powerfull
> computer) crack the encryption. Which is exaclty why I don't like wireless
> networks, so I don't have one.
>

True. However you do control the hardware, and you control the nodes
between the client and the Grase server. So in theory, the chance of any
kind of attack is much less. A MITM attack is also next to impossible as we
use CHAP authentication.

Tim

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