Difference between WPA and WEP

We can have 2 standards of security in wireless networks:

• WPA=(Wireless Protected Access) It's the best connection method, it gives an unique key to every user, that means every connection to the router has an handshake with the user device.The password can be from 8 to  63 characters. Now WPA works like this, but it also can work in a less secure way
• WPA-PSK=(Pre-Shared Key) It is the least secure, every user has the same password, it's usual to find in small business and home wireless networks. It can use 2 coding methods
• TKIP=(Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)In short words every package has a key, mixing the package integrity and a mechanism of re-keying
• AES=(Advance Encryption Standard) The best authorized coding for WiFi
• WPA2-PSK=Connect with AES coding method.

• WEP=(Wired Equivalent Privacy) It was the first standard of wireless security networks, now is obsolete, surpassed by WPA, is highly encouraged to not use WEP, nowadays it can be break it within minutes

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