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April 19th, 2005, 04:32 PM
#1
More wireless terms
This article is a bit of an add-on to XTC's sticky
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=267203
A wireless LAN security glossary
802.1X: An authentication standard for LANs and WLANs, used to identify users before allowing their traffic onto the network.
802.11i: In addition to all the features in WPA, 802.11i uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as a replacement for RC4 encryption.
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): AES is the US government standard encryption protocol that replaces Data Encryption Standard.
Certificate authority: Independent organisations that verify the identities of internal or external network security servers, and give those servers the ability to do the same for clients that connect to them, using encrypted certificates that are verified by the server every time the client logs on.
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP): An extension of Point-to-Point Protocol that supports many authentication methods, including Kerberos, public-key authentication and smart cards. In the IEEE's 802.1X, EAP is encapsulated in LAN or WLAN traffic, providing the mechanism for verifying the identity of a user to a RADIUS or other authentication server. There are several varieties of EAP, listed below and explained here
EAP-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS): a Microsoft-created proprietary extension, but this one has been accepted by the IETF as a public standard.
EAP-Tunneled Transport Layer Security (EAP-TTLS): a proprietary protocol developed by Funk Software and Certicom; under consideration by IETF as a new standard.
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP): a proprietary version of EAP that Cisco developed.
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP): a proprietary, extended-function version of EAP that Microsoft, Cisco and RSA Security developed.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP): an encryption protocol designed to provide more secure wireless encryption than WEP by making keys more difficult to crack. TKIP is the encryption mechanism for WPA, but is replaced by AES in 802.11i, which is also known as WPA2.
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP): An encryption technique built into 802.11 wireless LANs using 40-bit keys.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA): An industry standard based on a subset of an early draft of 802.11i. WPA replaces WEP's keying mechanism with a more robust system, called Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). WPA adds a strong message-integrity check and allows for authentication using 802.1X.
From
http://www.techworld.com/networking/...FeatureID=1295
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April 19th, 2005, 04:46 PM
#2
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA): An industry standard based on a subset of an early draft of 802.11i. WPA replaces WEP's keying mechanism with a more robust system, called Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). WPA adds a strong message-integrity check and allows for authentication using 802.1X.
WPA with TKIP is probably going to obsolete in a matter of (insert short time frame here)... WPA with AES is the light at the end of the tunnel
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April 19th, 2005, 05:05 PM
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Member
Hallo,
Quick question if I may please. If have seen the acronym of WAP to be used for Wireless Application Protocol, but also used as Wireless Access Point. Is the correct usage for WAP the former or latter of what I mentioned? Also are Access Points just known as APs?
Thank you!
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April 19th, 2005, 05:11 PM
#4
Is the correct usage for WAP the former or latter of what I mentioned? Also are Access Points just known as APs?
ALL the above. Depends on context.
Connect to the WAP
Connect to the AP
We use WAP
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April 19th, 2005, 07:34 PM
#5
Connect to the WAP
Connect to the AP
We use WAP
Connect to the wireless access point
Connect to the access point
We use wireless access points??
gotta be the devils advocate some times....
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April 19th, 2005, 08:03 PM
#6
WAP = Wireless Application Protocol
WPA = Wi-fi Protected Access
AP = Access Point
I don't think WAP is an official abbreviation for Wireless Access Point - the term Wireless Access Point is used by all major manufacturers of AP's, but I've never seen them use the abbreviation WAP. WAP as in Wireless Application Protocol does not apply to the AP's we're talking about here, since one of the "requirements" for WAP is "hand-held", as in mobile phones and PDA's and such...
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April 19th, 2005, 11:08 PM
#7
Lol, all of my network diagrams have WAP on them when there is a wireless access point. Gateway, Router, FireWall, WAP. Is it official? Probably not.
We use wireless application protocol is what I meant (for XTC). Like "we us WAP to push work stoppage reports to PDAs." WAP is pretty much been superceded already with next gen applications ready for bigger pipes. In fact now that I think of it WAP is used frequently as an acronym for WAP gateways like Cisco and even services like AvantGo. 3G will tax current WAP application gateways but I know 2.0 addresses the issues a little but Wireless Markup Language is out there. Oh and Java is cropping up as an alternative. Last couple of phones I had use Java in place of WAP. Although I suspect it's just a front end.
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April 20th, 2005, 08:46 PM
#8
Member
WAP = Wireless Application Protocol
WPA = Wi-fi Protected Access
AP = Access Point
I don't think WAP is an official abbreviation for Wireless Access Point - the term Wireless Access Point is used by all major manufacturers of AP's, but I've never seen them use the abbreviation WAP. WAP as in Wireless Application Protocol does not apply to the AP's we're talking about here, since one of the "requirements" for WAP is "hand-held", as in mobile phones and PDA's and such...
Achso. Danke!
Also thanks to the other replies, it lets me know that some of the IT acronyms can be at least a confusing lot.
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April 20th, 2005, 09:40 PM
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I like the term 'desperate mode' which is what WinXP SP-0 does off the shelf with Wifi enabled.
Ad-Hoc, Infrastructure, or Any (any == desperate mode.)
Sorry. </off topic>
You also have folks refering to VERSIONS of WPA, such as WPA2. WPA2 is usually used as a psuedonym for 802.11i.
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April 20th, 2005, 10:20 PM
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