Authenticatin Wireless Clients
8 important questions on Authenticatin Wireless Clients
What two authentication choices were supported by the original 802.11 standard?
2. WEP
What is Open Authentication?
Which three Wi-Fi Protected Access, or WPA versions are there and which client authentication modes do they support?
They all support 2 authentication modes, Personal or Pre-Shared Key and Enterprise mode or 802.1X.
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WPA1 and WPA2 Personal have a weakness, what weakness and how is it addressed in WPA3 Personal?
In WPA3 this is strengthened by a method called Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE).
How do clients assiocate with an ap when the SSID is configured for EAP authentication?
In an 802.1X authentication process there are 3 entities, which 3?
2. Authenticator (Network device providing network access. Usually a WLC)
3. Authentication Server AS (Device that permits or denies client based on credentials and a user database. Usually Radius server)
Web Authentication can present the user with a web page, for example to accept an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
This can be done by using Local Web Authentication (LWA) on the WLC, which 5 LWA modes are possible?
2. LWA with external database on a Radius or LDAP server
3. LWA with an external redirect after authentication
4. LWA with an external splash page redirect, using internal DB
5. LWA with passthrough, requiring user acknowledgement.
In larger environments it might not be feasible to use LWA because of the scale. What are the other option?
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