Just a few ideas to to ccnfigure the wireless network to be secure, you can do this pretty easy:
1. Like you said use WEP.
2. Lock down the AP to MAC addresses that should be allowed on the network.
3. Put a firewall between the AP and the internal network.
4. In addition to WEP (which is breakable) use a VPN solution from client to the Firewall. PTPP or IPSEC clients and servers are fairly available for most platforms.
5. Consider using SSL on the web server.
6. Set up snort or some other IDS on the inside of the firewall -- and _look_ at the reports.

The multiple levels of encryption add overhead but make it much more secure -- WEP is very breakable without vpn encapsulation and or SSL once an intruder breaks WEP they can get valuble information to gain access to your network.

-Waswas

In reply to Re: Designing a sophisticated wireless application with perl. by waswas-fng
in thread Designing a sophisticated wireless application with perl. by DigitalKitty

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