> Problem with 802.11 isn't the radio layer, it's the security. True. It's a damn shame about WEP, and WPA2 didn't happen until 2004. But, 2004 is eleven years

> Problem with 802.11 isn't the radio layer, it's the security. True. It's a damn shame about WEP, and WPA2 didn't happen until 2004. But, 2004 is eleven years ago. Disgregarding the shitfest that is WPS-PIN, WPA2 with CCMP is looking rather good. Are you aware of breaks in WPA2 with CCMP-only crypto and either a well-chosen passphrase, or WPA2-Enterprise with a proper client authorization scheme? > ...it's simply not possible to get a 1999 wifi card on a modern wifi network in any half-secure fashion. Not saying that there are any WiFi cards that behave in this manner, [0] but would a hypothetical WiFi card that only knows how to how to establish and pass around -er- frames(?) on a 802.11a/g link and relies on the client PC to use the frames passed back and forth to do link crypto & etc be * Possible * Reasonably sufficiently fast, given enough CPU power on the client * Able to cope with any likely enhancements (such as the addition of WPA2 back in 2004) with a driver update, rather than a firmware update ? [0] Even though I thought that pre 802.11ac Atheros cards had open firmware and open drivers, so one got pretty close to this.