Wireless security and OpenSSH

[Rick Angell]

I have a laptop running XP and I would like to make a secure connection 
to my linux box at home.
The laptop is using a linksys WPC11 PCMCIA card, and the linux box has 
an Orinoco Gold card running under Mandrake 9.0. The connection works 
fine now, but i'm concerned about the limitations of using WEP for 
security. I don't want to be broadcasting logons and passwords out if 
they can be sniffed out and the WEP security hacked.

 Can I use OpenSSH for this?  Any ideas and suggestions much appreciated.
 Thanks!     Rick