Fw: NASA's 802.11b Wireless Security Solution

[Warren Togami]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chee" <chee at hawaii.edu>
To: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>; "LUAU" <luau at luau.hi.net>
Cc: "Mark Hines" <mhines at midpac.edu>; "Tom Donahoe" <thetman at lava.net>;
"Marcia J. Kemble" <mkemble at aloha.com>; "Mike Krafft" <mikek at midpac.edu>;
"Rich Schaffer" <rschaff at midpac.edu>; "Bill Wiecking" <bill at mahi.damien.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: NASA's 802.11b Wireless Security Solution


> This is exactly what we did for the asian development bank with the
> "infowave" server.....the server was in a DMZ behind a PIX firewall....the
> infowave client was installed on the ce and wintel devices.....all traffic
> was encrypted and sent over a single tcp port.....authentication took
> another port.  So grand total for infowave, I had to poke two holes into
the
> firewall.
>
> Now the downside....we had to add a third to get streaming media to work,
> and then a fourth to get management to work.
>
> I should also say that doing 100% encryption is not for everyone....the
> performance hit you take is massive.  Using something like the WRQ
Netmotion
> server (implementation of mobile IP) uses and encrypted login...but leaves
> content open....most everyone isn't too concerned about their
content....but
> logins are a different matter....this compromise is MUCH faster and still
> quite secure.
>
> /brian chee
>
> University of Hawaii ICS Dept
> Advanced Network Computing Lab
> 1680 East West Road, POST rm 311
> Honolulu, HI  96822
> 808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax
>

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