Basic Terms of Wireless Network Security

For wireless security testing, not only physical equipment, but also basic wireless knowledge. The following describes some basic terms that are often involved in wireless network security.

SSID (Service Set Identifier), a unique Identifier used by the workstation to communicate with the access point. The SSID can be any character with a maximum length of 32 characters.

The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open standard Protocol that transfers network information to mobile phones or other Wireless communication terminals. WAP can run on various wireless networks, such as GSM, GPRS, and CDMA. WML is short for Wireless Makeup Language. Mobile phones supporting WAP technology can browse Internet content described by WML.

AP (Wireless) Access Point), that is, Wireless Access Point or Wireless Access Point. The wireless client must connect to the wireless access point to obtain the ability to log on to the Internet. A wireless access point can be a large wireless access device or a small wireless router. Since the concepts of WAP (Wireless AP) and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) are confused in some materials, we will use AP to refer to Wireless access points in this book.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is the most widely used wireless network authentication mechanism in the market. It is an encryption method defined in 802.11. To put it simply, set a set of passwords in the Wireless AP. to connect to the Wireless AP, you must enter the same password to connect to the AP.

WPA (WiFi Protected Access) is divided into WPA and wpa2.

EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is an Authentication mechanism used to verify the identity of network devices.

Wi-Fi-Mesh is a new public wireless LAN and man solution. Its network structure is similar to that of the fishing network. There are many routes from one point to the other, in this way, even if some sites have faults, they can still be well covered.