Wireless security and OpenSSH

Mike Warnecke mike at audiowarehouse.sk.ca
Tue Jan 28 01:37:10 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 06:52, Rick Angell wrote:
> 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.

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