DrTCP
Yours truly
Premium,ExMod 1999-04
join:1999-11-09
Round Rock, TX
| WPA2 is a certified name for IEEE 802.11i
WPA is a specification of Wi-Fi consortium based on draft IEEE 802.11i standard. WPA2 will be based on the final 802.11i standard.
Wi-Fi is a private industry group while IEEE is a standards body. Wi-Fi does not certify IEEE standards. They can only adopt them like they did for WPA and WPA2. They can then certify vendor products to WPA2. But that does not mean they are a body to certify IEEE 802.11 standards. |
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Air WAV
join:2000-09-16
Saint Louis, MO | We currently use AES encryption on our 5.8 radios for HIPPA compliancy.
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DrTCP
Yours truly
Premium,ExMod 1999-04
join:1999-11-09
Round Rock, TX
2 edits | said by Air WAV  :
We currently use AES encryption on our 5.8 radios for HIPPA compliancy.
Well, some WLAN chipset vendors implemented AES as an proprietary extension of WPA but it is not part of WPA specification. For 802.11i/WPA2 there are more changes than simply AES. In other words,
WPA + AES <> WPA2
(However vendors that implemented AES with WPA is probably pretty close to WPA/802.11i) |
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