On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:29:28 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

  

IMHO, I am more worried about security on the Internet than I am about security between my PC and the router.
    

It's not a matter of security between the PC and the router.  I may be
wrong, but I don't believe these keys do any encryption at all.  They
are strictly 'access keys' allowing or prohibiting use of the router.

  

This bit of security is to keep someone else's PC from using the
router.  If an outsider is able to access the router:
1) They are able to access the Internet with the messages
   appearing to be coming from one of my PCs
2) Worse yet, they then have access to my PCs
   that are connected to the router either directly
   or indirectly.