Cryptographic standards
Cryptography standards are related to the following:
- Encryption
- Hashing
- Digital signatures
- Public key infrastructure
- Wireless
- Federal standards
We've covered different cryptographic standards pertaining to encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and public key infrastructure in the previous sections. In this section, we'll cover the wireless standards and the Federal standard FIPS-140 for cryptographic modules.
Wireless cryptographic standards
Wireless protocols and services are predominantly governed by IEEE 802.11 standards. These standards are basically for Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) for computer communications.
The following are some of the cryptographic standards that are used in WLAN:
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an algorithm that uses the stream cipher RC4 encryption standard for confidentiality protection and CRC-32 for integrity assurance. This algorithm is now deprecated as it was breached easily.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security...