The Wi-Fi Alliance is getting ready to put an end to WEP and TKIP on access points and WiFi devices.
As early as January 2011 the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to disallow
TKIP on access points, with the standard being disallowed on all WiFi devices by 2012.
WEP gets a slight stay of execution, with the standard being banned on access points from 2013, with the near useless and outdated encryption standard being banned from all WiFi devices a year later.
WPA2-Mixed mode, which allows TKIP, will also go 2014, leaving only WPA2-AES.
Good news - couldn’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned.
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