Monday, May 25, 2015

WLAN Authentication Methods

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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