Hi I am currently doing some research on the security aspects of IEEE 802.11 networks. In that I wondered why Public Key encryption schemes are never seemed to be considered (not for WEP or IEEE 802.11i/WPA). Can anyone give me reason for that. Is it due to the fact of lower performance of pub key schemes. If so can anyone provide me with some references on why performance is that much lower for pub key ciphers than symmetric ciphers? Or are they too difficult to implement in hardware? Or are there some other reasons I just do not see?
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