AMX MVP-5200i manual Terminology, 802.1x

Appendix B: Wireless Technology

Terminology

802.1x

IEEE 802.1x is an IEEE standard that is built on the Internet standard EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol). 802.1x is a standard for passing EAP messages over either a wired or wireless LAN. Additionally, 802.1x is also responsible for communicating the method with which WAPs and wireless users can share and change encryption keys. This continuous key change helps resolve any major security vulnerabilities native to WEP.

AES

Short for Advanced Encryption Standard, is a cipher currently approved by the NSA to protect US Government documents classified as Top Secret. The AES cipher is the first cipher protecting Top Secret information available to the general public.

CERTIFICATES (CA)

A certificate can have many forms, but at the most basic level, a certificate is an identity combined with a public key, and then signed by a certification authority. The certificate authority (CA) is a trusted external third party which "signs" or validates the certificate. When a certificate has been signed, it gains some cryptographic properties. AMX supports the following security certificates within three different formats:

-PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail)

-DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules)

-PKCS12 (Public Key Cryptography Standard #12)

Typical certificate information can include the following items:

-Certificate Issue Date

-Extensions

-Issuer

-Public Key

-Serial Number

-Signature Algorithm

-User

-Version

MIC

Short for Message Integrity Check, this prevents forged packets from being sent. Through WEP, it was possible to alter a packet whose content was known even if it had not been decrypted.

TKIP

Short for Temporal Key Integration, this is part of the IEEE 802.11i encryption standard for wireless LANs. TKIP provides a per-packet key mixing, message integrity check and re-keying mechanism, thus ensuring that every data packet is sent with its own unique encryption key. Key mixing increases the complexity of decoding the keys by giving the hacker much less data that has been encrypted using any one key.

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