Chapter 4. 802.11 Wireless LAN Security
This chapter covers the following topics:
Security as defined in the 1997 802.11 specification—. Why was Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) selected as the encryption algorithm and Open and Shared Key selected as the authentication algorithms?
Security vulnerabilities in the 1997 802.11 standard—. Why is WEP ineffective for encryption and Open and Shared Key ineffective for authentication?
Next generation wireless LAN (WLAN) security enhancements—. What are the new technologies being used to secure 802.11 WLANs?
For developers who have implemented or are currently implementing 802.11 wireless, an alphabet soup of acronyms describe enhanced 802.11 WLAN security. Abbreviations such as 802.1X, EAP, LEAP, PEAP, EAP-TLS, ...
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