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What is 802.11i?

Dec 26th, 2005 02:18
The Voyager, Joe Delaney, http://www.tech-faq.com/802.11i.shtml

802.11i is a draft IEEE standard for 802.11 wireless network security. 
802.11i defines several new standards, and also relies heavily on many 
existing standards.

802.11i introduced the RSN (Robust Secure Network) protocol for 
establishing secure communications.

802.11i also introduced the WRAP (Wireless Robust Authentication 
Protocol) and CCMP encryption protocols, both of which are based upon 
the AES encryption algorithm.

802.11i uses EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) as the end-to-
end transport for authentication methods between the wireless NIC and 
the wireless access point. 802.11i uses 802.1X (EAPoL) to encapsulate 
these EAP messages over wireless ethernet.