It is important to understand that there is a distinction between being authenticated onto a wireless network and then having the traffic passed be encrypted. It is possible to be authenticated onto a network and pass open unencrypted traffic; this section looks at the commonly used methods of authentication.
There are three main methods of authentication that are used on today’s wireless LANs:- open authentication
- shared authentication
- EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) authentication
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