Why is MAC-based authentication insecure?
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Mar 15, 202617685 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Most wireless routers can use MAC-based authentication as part of their overall security scheme. It seems like a good idea, but I've heard that it is very ineffective, because it's easy to spoof MAC addresses. I believe that it's easy to spoof these addresses, but I don't see how that's a problem. …
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Even with wireless encryption enabled, MAC addresses are sent unencrypted. The reason for this is that if you encrypted the MAC address, every client on the wireless network would need to decrypt every single packet, just to find out whether it was …
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