Wireless Network Security Part II

WPA: A rush solution to the security problems of WEP WPA2: Based on 802.11i (official version) Encrypt and authenticate MSDUs: counter mode-CBC MAC protocol with AES-128 Authenticate STAs: 802.1X Initialization vectors transmitted in plaintext are no longer needed to generate per-frame keys But most of the existing Wi-Fi WPA cards cannot be upgraded to support 802.11i