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Enhanced security protocols

Enhanced security protocols

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Enhanced security protocols

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- [Announcer] After the web security standard, came out Wi-Fi Protected Access or WPA. And it used TKIP for encryption. And the idea was to use it as a temporary measure to get away from WEP because WEP was so weak and we wanted to be able to just upgrade the software on the access points without having to upgrade the hardware, because if we went directly from RC4 to AES, that might put too much processor demand on our existing access points and clients. However, it was long before attackers developed a way to break WPA security. And then came WPA2. In fact, in order to become Wi-Fi certified as of 2006, your device had to support WPA2. And WPA2 required that your device be able to support AES. Even though you could optionally run TKIP instead, you had to have the option of running AES if the user wanted to. And as newer wireless devices were released with more processing power, it became reasonable to use AES as the…

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