What are the two types of device authentication supported by the IEEE 802.11 standard?
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There are two types of device authentication supported by the IEEE 802.11 standard. Open system authentication, the default method, uses the Service Set Identifier (SSID) to authenticate a device. After receiving an association request frame from a wireless device that wants to join the WLAN, the access point compares the SSID received with the actual SSID of the network. If the two match then the wireless device is authenticated. An optional authentication method is shared key authentication, in which the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) default key is used. A wireless device sends a frame to the AP and the AP sends back a frame that contains a block of text known as the challenge text. The wireless device must encrypt the text with the default key and return it to the AP. the AP will then decrypt what was returned to see if it matches the original challenge text. If it does, the device is authenticated and allowed to become part of the network.
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