Security Stopgap
WEP is not a critical part of your WLAN security, but it will continue to play an important role until IEEE 802.11i ships. That may not happen until late 2003, though the WiFi Alliance is implementing an early draft of 802.11i now as an interim security measure. This is not the role WEP's developers envisioned it would play, but WEP is too easily defeated to provide anywhere near the level of security provided by true security tools. For all WEP's attackability, its absence leads the uninformed to believe WLANs are unprotected even when the real WLAN security measures are firmly in place behind the scenes.
So WEP, with all its weaknesses, is the de facto Keep Out sign. Post it now. Just be sure to back it up with some bona fide security measures.
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