WPA for the Home
As described earlier, TKIP (and WPA) rely upon an 802.1x infrastructure (such as RADIUS servers) to be in place for key distribution. Not all home users have this infrastructure in place; therefore, in order to use the advanced encryption features of TKIP, WPA has introduced a special mode called Pre-Shared Key (PSK).
In this special mode, all the user has to do is enter a shared secret (called a master key) in the AP and each client. This is similar to the way WEP worked when you had to enter a WEP key in the AP and each client. However, unlike WEP, TKIP uses the master key as a starting point to mathematically derive the other encryption keys. Unlike WEP, which used the static key over and over again, TKIP changes the encryption ...
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