March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
214 pages
4h 29m
English
Shared Key Authentication uses a shared secret such as the WEP key to authenticate the client. The exact exchange of information is illustrated in the following screenshot (taken from www.netgear.com):

The wireless client sends an authentication request to the access point, which responds back with a challenge. The client now needs to encrypt this challenge with the shared key and send it back to the access point, which decrypts this to check whether it can recover the original challenge text. If it succeeds, the client successfully authenticates; if not, it sends an authentication failed message.
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