ALSO CALLED: Wireless Encryption and Wi-Fi Protected Access DEFINITION: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security standard for users of computers equipped with Wi-Fiwireless connection. It is an improvement on and is expected to replace the original Wi-Fi security standard, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WPA provides more sophisticated
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WPA DEFINITION (continued): … data encryption than WEP and also provides user authentication (WEP's user authentication is considered insufficient). WEP is still considered useful for the casual home user, but insufficient for the corporate environment where the large flow of messages can enable eavesdroppers to discover encryption keys more quickly.
WPA's encryption method is the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). TKIP adddresses the weaknesses of WEP by including a per-packet … WPA definition sponsored by SearchMobileComputing.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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