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Wi-Fi Protected Access Data Encryption and Integrity

Overview Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an interim industry standard that makes 802.11 wireless LAN networking secure through a firmware upgrade to 802.11-based wireless network adapters and wireless Access Points (APs). WPA replaces Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) with the combination of the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which provides data confidentiality through encryption, and Michael, which provides data integrity. This paper describes the details of TKIP and Michael and the WPA encryption and decryption processes.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	November 2004	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wireless LAN, Wi-Fi (802.11), Security Management

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Channel:
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wi-fi

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Channel:
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