Edit: Now I see the disconnect-reconnect thing happens every 3-4. The best rule of thumb is: use what you've got and be done with it. Im not sure if this whole Renewal and Idle Timeout is related to my reconnections, but its my best guess. Not everyone has access to Radius-enabled hardware, hence the practical security meaning most everyone has WEP/WPA/WPA2 and, for the "wily hacker," it's not protection at all. There is no practical security that can protect your data if you use a wireless connection and someone wants it. MAC filtering? Irrelevant since every packet is tagged with a MAC - encryption doesn't help there.
WPA2? Like eating a steak with that same knife. WPA? Hot knife through a buttered bagel, a little tougher. With an 11bg wireless card, my BackTrack 2.0 CD, and well under 30 minutes, I can get into most any wireless network that doesn't use the aforementioned Radius setup.
But even before I started being interested in having that cert just for shits and giggles, I've been part of the Auditor/BackTrack project from since it's inception. I've got a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker, seriously) cert now - and man that was easy to get. Its’ purpose was to serve the same level of security as wired networks. The first WiFi Security standard (WEP) was approved in 1990 for wireless network protection and adopted widely shortly after.
#WEP VS WPA 4 HOURS UPGRADE#
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to get into systems these days. WiFi Security Protocols are the encryption standards like WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3, each being an upgrade of the previous one.