So the wireless security protocols are weap, WPA and WPA to.
Now, of course, they probably on some level serve the same purpose, but they're certainly different
all at the same time.
So not only do wireless security protocols prevent unwanted parties from connecting to your wireless
network, but also encrypt your private data sent over the airwaves.
So wired equivalent privacy or weap, that is the ATO 211 standard that was introduced to provide privacy
features similar to those found in wired networks.
Then as soon as floors in weap were discovered, I trivially created a new group called Aido to 11,
I aimed at improving Wi-Fi security and then.
WPA or Wi-Fi protected access replaced WSP in 2003.
Then followed swiftly on the heels by two or.
Another eight to 11 is standard in 2004.
So WEAP was designed to provide the same level of security as that of wired land.
Because wireless networks broadcast messages using radio signals they are susceptible to eavesdropping.
Wet provide security by encrypting data over radio waves so that it's protected as it's transmitted
from one end point to another.
WEAP uses the stream cypher RC four for confidentiality, CCRC 32 checks for integrity.
So now there are two methods of authentication that can be used with Web open system authentication
and shared key authentication, which I briefly mentioned earlier.
If privacy is of primary concern, it's more advisable to use open system authentication for Web authentication
rather than shared key authentication.
However, it also means that any wireless LAN client can connect to the app.
So basically, both authentication mechanisms are kind of weak, right, shared key web is deprecated
in favor of WPA and WPA to.
So then the recommended solution to Web security problems now switch to to.
WPA was an intermediate solution for hardware that couldn't really support WPA, too.
Yet we still talk about it.
But WPA uses a message integrity check algorithm, it's called Technip, and it verifies the integrity
of the packets, it prevents an attacker from altering and then resending data packets.
Webb used an unchanged 64 or 128 bit encryption key that must be manually entered into wireless access
points and devices.
Technip uses one key per packet, which dynamically creates a new 128 bit key for each packet.
I mean, that's insane, right?
But definitely prevents Web attacks.
So after a security flaw appeared in WPA, WPA two with a stronger encryption algorithm was released
to replace WPA.
So that's why we still talk about WPA, but really we're talking about the WPA to now you get it.