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Vendor Pinpoints Serious WLAN-RADIUS Security Breach: Page 2 of 2

Flaw enables relatively easy interception of encrypted keys between a wireless access point and a RADIUS server.
July 26, 2004

"There are a number of solutions to this problem," Callisch said. "We have one and we'd love it, of course, if everybody bought our stuff. But we're just trying to be helpful and it isn't necessary to buy our products."

For instance, Callisch said that using tunneling between the access point and the RADIUS server can solve hte problem or using a centralized encryption scheme.

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