WiMax: Just Another Security Challenge?

WiMax: Just Another Security Challenge?
Stephen Barish

Wireless networks have long been hailed as easily deployed, low-cost solutions for providing broadband services to an increasingly mobile population. As with any emerging technology, however, it wasn't long before attackers were exploiting it.

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WiMax: Just Another Security Challenge? 2008-11-01
Anonymous

DES is not robust. DES can now be broken by personal computers in a relatively short amount of time. It's disappointing to see WiMax make use of such a broken encryption algorithm as its basis.

It doesn't seem like WiMax is inherently more secure than today's WiFi, deployed properly. The use o...

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I feel wifi will win this war 2009-04-21
Manish Khanijo

only reason I believe that is because the pace at which R&D efforts are moving for wifi far exceeds Wimax....

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WiMax: Just Another Security Challenge? 2009-06-01
Devendra Kulkarni

Wifi was built to provide wireless connectivity - extended arm of wired world, hence security was not inherent in it, Security was built on top of it.

However as is said by Stephen Barish we really need to study more on wimax.

Wait and watch may prove to be fatal hence more research needed on Wima...

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WiMax: Just Another Security Challenge? 2009-08-24
Anonymous

> AES is much more secure, stronger than WPA2 by far.

Considering that WPA2 is based on AES (CCMP), this is hardly an enlightening statement :-) ...

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