WPA2 plus VPN

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It has been suggested that using WPA2 could be strengthened by using a VPN.
I'm puzzling over that notion.

Here I thought that a VPN was mostly based on using an encryption scheme.
So why bother?

Any suggestions? I feel like I have some learning to do.

Thanks,

Fred

 

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WPA protects traffic between the client and the access point. If the access
point is a part of a public network then VPN should be used - otherwise it's
clearly overkill, overengineering that adds no security but does add system
administration overhead.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"Fred Marshall" <fmarshallx@remove_the_x.acm.org> wrote in message
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> It has been suggested that using WPA2 could be strengthened by using a
VPN.
> I'm puzzling over that notion.
>
> Here I thought that a VPN was mostly based on using an encryption scheme.
> So why bother?
>
> Any suggestions? I feel like I have some learning to do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred
>
>

 

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Svyatoslav

Thanks for the confirmation.

Fred

"S. Pidgorny <MVP>" <slavickp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> WPA protects traffic between the client and the access point. If the
> access
> point is a part of a public network then VPN should be used - otherwise
> it's
> clearly overkill, overengineering that adds no security but does add
> system
> administration overhead.
>
> --
> Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
> -= F1 is the key =-
>
> "Fred Marshall" <fmarshallx@remove_the_x.acm.org> wrote in message
> news:OAxoAR3UFHA.1796@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> It has been suggested that using WPA2 could be strengthened by using a
> VPN.
>> I'm puzzling over that notion.
>>
>> Here I thought that a VPN was mostly based on using an encryption scheme.
>> So why bother?
>>
>> Any suggestions? I feel like I have some learning to do.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>
>