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So my buddy and I are having a debate. This is non-model specific and a general home wifi question. He said that when a wifi router encrypts traffic, it encrypts it all the way to the destination through the internet. I'm saying it only encrypts from the client to the wifi router itself. It doesn't encrypt past the router.
> He said that when a wifi router encrypts traffic, it encrypts it all > the way to the destination through the internet.
He's wrong. Wi-Fi (stupid name) encryption is Wi-Fi encryption; it works on the link between the wireless access point and the client device. It is intended to prevent someone who has a radio receiver in the neighborhood from gleaning useful information from your radio signals.
The wireless access point and the client device negotiate the link encryption; some remote Web site (for example) knows nothing about it.
Additional end-to-end encryption (HTTPS, SSH, SSL, ...) is entirely independent of Wi-Fi encryption.
> He said that when a wifi router encrypts traffic, it encrypts it all > the way to the destination through the internet.
He's wrong. Wi-Fi (stupid name) encryption is Wi-Fi encryption; it works on the link between the wireless access point and the client device. It is intended to prevent someone who has a radio receiver in the neighborhood from gleaning useful information from your radio signals.
The wireless access point and the client device negotiate the link encryption; some remote Web site (for example) knows nothing about it.
Additional end-to-end encryption (HTTPS, SSH, SSL, ...) is entirely independent of Wi-Fi encryption.
