WPA
Wireless Protected Access is a security solution adopted by the Wi-Fi Alliance that adds authentication
to
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
's basic encryption. For authentication, WPA specifies IEEE 802.1x
authentication with Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). For encryption, WPA uses the
(Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)
mechanism, which shares a starting key between devices, and then
changes their encryption key for every packet.
can also be used. Also part of
the encryption mechanism are 802.1x for dynamic key distribution and
MIC (Message Integrity Check or
.
WPA requires that all computers and devices have WPA software.
Glossary
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