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WEP - Wired-Equivalent Privacy protocol. A security protocol, specified in the IEEE 802.11 standard,
that attempts to provide a wireless LAN (WLAN) with a minimal level of security and privacy comparable
to a typical wired LAN. WEP encrypts data transmitted over the WLAN to protect the vulnerable wireless
connection between users (clients) and access points (APs). Although appropriate for most home use,
WEP is weak and fundamentally flawed for enterprise use.
Compare AES; CCMP; TKIP.
Wi-Fi Alliance - An organization formed by leading wireless equipment and software providers, for
certifying all IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) products for interoperability and promoting the term Wi-
Fi as their global brand name. Only products that pass Wi-Fi Alliance testing can be certified. Certified
products are required to carry an identifying seal on their packaging stating that the product is Wi-Fi
certified and indicating the radio frequency band used (2.4 GHz for 802.11b and 5 GHz for 802.11a,
for example). The Wi-Fi Alliance was formerly known as the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
(WECA).
Wi-Fi Protected Access - See WPA.
wildcard mask - A 32-bit quantity used with an IP address to determine which bits in the address to
ignore in a comparison with another IP address. When setting up security access control lists (ACLs),
you specify source and destination IP addresses and corresponding wildcard masks by which the
switch determines whether to forward or filter packets. The security ACL checks the bits in IP addresses
that correspond to any 0s (zeros) in the mask, but does not check the bits that correspond to 1s (ones)
in the mask.
wired authentication port - An Ethernet port that has 802.1X authentication enabled for access
control.
Wired-Equivalent Privacy protocol - See WEP.
Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance - See Wi-Fi Alliance.
wireless Internet service provider - See WISP.
wireless LAN - See WLAN.
WISP - Wireless Internet service provider. A company that provides public wireless LAN (WLAN)
services.
WLAN - Wireless LAN. A LAN to which mobile users (clients) can connect and communicate by means
of high-frequency radio waves rather than wires. WLANs are defined in the IEEE 802.11 standard.
WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access. The Wi-Fi Alliance's version of the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
(TKIP) that also includes a message integrity code (MIC) known as Michael. Although WPA provides
greater wireless security than the Wired-Equivalent Privacy protocol (WEP), WPA is not as secure
as IEEE 802.11i, which includes both the RC4 encryption used in WEP and Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES) encryption, but is not yet ratified by IEEE. See also AES; RC4; TKIP.
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