Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP): An encryption technique built into 802.11 wireless LANs using 40-bit keys. 802.1X: An authentication standard for LANs and WLANs, used ...

Using WPA on your phone. Wi-Fi Protected Access is a Wi-Fi security technology developed in response to the weaknesses of Wired Equivalent Privacy standards. It ...

Researchers in Japan have developed an attack against WiFi Protected Access when using the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) that can successfully break the encryption in less than a minute. If ...

WPA brings several security improvements to the airwaves. WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which replaces WEP's 40-bit static key with a 128-bit dynamically assigned key. That ...

Anyone developing wireless LAN (WLAN) systems knows the security problem created by the wired equivalency protocol (WEP). The bigger issue designers must wrestle with is how to solve the problems ...

Academic researchers have found an exploitable hole in a popular form of wireless networking encryption. The hole is in a part of 802.11i that forms the basis of WiFi Protected Access (WPA), so it ...

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM says wireless LAN access to an enterprise adds enormous risk because the broken security model at the heart of Wi-Fi networking allows crackers to break encryption, snoop traffic, ...

Find out how WPA and WPA2 improve upon WEP's encryption methods for better wireless security. The previous tip in this series on wireless encryption methods explained how WEP works. By 2001, hacker ...