Wireless Security

Question 1

WEP

Answer 1

Wired Equivalent Privacy
Security protocol intended to provide protection on par with wired networks for wireless connections
No one should be using WEP ANYMORE

Question 2

WPA

Answer 2

Wifi Protected Access

Question 3

TKIP

Answer 3

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

1. A more secure key derivation method was used to more securely incorporate the IV into the per packet encryption key.
2. A sequence counter was implemented to prevent replay attacks by rejecting out of order packets
3. A 64-bit MIC was introduced to prevent forging, tampering or corruption of packets