Thanks for the reply Josh! 

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Subject: Re: [tcwug-list] Security and wireless - was E-Democracy
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Ryberg, Nicholas wrote:
<snippy>
> 
> As a home user who wants to lock down his home wireless network, 
> what's the easiest way to do this?  I would guess that WPA2 with the 
> alphabet soup of accompanying acronyms is secure, but is it workable 
> for a normal end user?  Is WPA sufficient?
>
> Do I need a backroom server to manage all that stuff?  
>
</snippy>

Fascinating...technical questions on a technical list.

WPA for a home user should be quite sufficient. You can use pre-shared
keys and still be in the good enough realm if you use a somewhat strong
key. Pre-shared keys would remove the need for some sort of backend
server.

Josh

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