Chapter 11. TKIP
Chapter 11 reviews one of the new security protocols that was developed specifically for use with existing Wi-Fi equipment. We will see that the TKIP security protocol provides a huge improvement over WEP and yet is able to operate on the same type of hardware and can even be applied to many older Wi-Fi systems through firmware upgrades. We start off with an overview of what TKIP is intended to accomplish and then work through each of the functions of TKIP in detail.
What Is TKIP and Why Was It Created?
TKIP stands for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, but that's not important right now (or probably ever). TKIP exists for one reason: to allow WEP systems to be upgraded to be secure. This is the reason TKIP was created and this requirement ...
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