Wireless

A list of pages on Wireless is over at the Category:Wireless page.

WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryption all encrypt network traffic. What that means is, if you have the WEP, WPA, or WPA2 passphrase, you can be on that network, and you can see all of the network traffic on that network.

HTTPS encrypts HTTP traffic. It encrypts HTTP traffic from one server to one client. The intention of HTTPS is to provide an additional layer of security on top of the Wi-Fi password. Even if someone can see all of the network traffic on the network, HTTPS network traffic will still be encrypted.

The Embarassingly Difficult Task of Connecting to Wifi in Linux

One Time

Assuming your wireless device is wlan0,

$ wpa_supplicant -D nl80211,wext -i wlan0 -c <(wpa_passphrase "MyRouter" "MyPassword")

Permanetly

Or, one time. Either one.

First, edit /etc/network/interfaces

Add the wireless interface and WPA information:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp 
                wpa-ssid MyRouter
                wpa-psk  MyPassword

Now close the file and execute the command:

$ dhclient wlan0