TKIP
During the time when WEP was embedded in wireless client and AP hardware, yet was known to be vulnerable, the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) was developed. TKIP is the product of the 802.11i working group and the Wi-Fi Alliance.
TKIP adds the following security features using legacy hardware and the underlying WEP encryption:
MIC—An efficient algorithm to add a hash value to each frame as a message integrity check to prevent tampering; commonly called Michael” as an informal reference to MIC.
Time stamp—A time stamp is added into the ...
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