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4-Way Handshake Under the 802.11i amendment, two stations (STAs) must establish a procedure to authenticate and associate with each other as well as create dynamic encryption keys through a process known as the 4-Way Handshake.

802.11-2007 standard On March 8, 2007, the most current iteration of the standard was approved: IEEE Std. 802.11-2007. This new standard is an update of the IEEE Std. 802.11-1999 revision. The following documents have been rolled into this latest revision, providing users with a single document that has all the amendments published to date. This new standard includes the following:

IEEE Std. 802.11-1999 (R2003)

IEEE Std. 802.11a-1999

IEEE Std. 802.11b-1999

IEEE Std. 802.11d-2001

IEEE Std. 802.11g-2003 ...

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