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Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by remcob on Friday August 03, 2018 @07:38AM (#17678973)
> not using encryption

Not a viable option, this would allow anyone to intercept traffic.

(To be fair, a lot of wifi routers are broken and will forward you all decrypted traffic from other users anyway on request. Try running WireShark on public wifis.)

The big problem is that Wifi with no password provides no privacy. Ideally we would have a wifi mode that is encrypted, but does not require a password. Just like Https.

Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by frgewut on Friday August 03, 2018 @08:26AM (#17679258)
Actually WPA with pre-shared key doesn't provide any security if key is publicly known (as someone can setup mitm device).

For wifi without password you should look at WPS.

Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by blincoln on Friday August 03, 2018 @11:10AM (#17680508)
It's not that someone can set up a MitM device. Wifi with a shared password can be passively captured using a variety of tools and decrypted using WireShark.[1]

The "coffee shop" scenario, where a WPA2 Personal password is written where anyone can see it, is essentially as insecure as non-encrypted wireless.

WPA2 Personal is only secure if the password is very strong[2] and never given to untrusted parties.

The only wireless security I put any real trust in is WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1x certificate-based authentication specifically.[3]

[1] https://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11 [2] Otherwise it's possible to mount a hash-cracking attack after capturing the four-way handshake for clients that have the password. [3] WPA2 Enterprise with per-user password-based authentication is vulnerable to an "evil twin attack" unless the password is very strong, which is usually not the case, because organizations typically have it authenticate against Active Directory or another LDAP.

Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by zielmicha on Sunday August 05, 2018 @06:30AM (#17690611)
> The only wireless security I put any real trust in is WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1x certificate-based authentication specifically.

802.1x with a certificate for Radius server (TTLS mode, which simply layers the plaintext password via TLS) and plain passwords for users is also good enough.