802.1x no longer good enough

This article from George Ou is an alarming way to start the morning.  It details the new attacks on the WEP protocol, which is known to be broken, but was generally assumed to be “good enough” when rotated often.  Unfortunately, that is no longer the case, so we need to look at moving to the next generation of encryption on our Wireless LAN ASAP.  In an educational setting such as ours, however, this is a little trickier, I’ve got about 750 clients spread around campus, and I can’t get that many users to turn on a dime.  To make them even grumpier, this is going to “break” a lot of older wireless hardware which is sure to bring the college students out with their pitchforks and torches.  In other words, I’m already having a bad day…