
Chapter 7
latency, which continues to plague the technology, even as of this writing. The 802.11 security
staircase actually led to some of the greatest challenges that face the 802.11r roaming work-
group, as they struggle to provide fast roaming times, while carrying forward the security
legacy reflected in Figure 7.1.
The year 2002 witnessed the introduction of the TKIP- and AES-encryption ciphers, although
essentially no commercial adoption of them occurred this early. Tunneled authentication was
introduced first via TTLS and then via PEAP. EAP-SIM was also introduced at that time but
saw no commercial implementations. In 2003, PEAP emerged as the ...