Most of the new 802.11 chipsets have AES accelerators on-die, removing the need for a separate chip.
Those that don't tend to have AES accelerators on the CPU.
WPA (which used to be SSN, and probably rhymed with RSN) is about as good as its going to get on existing h/w,
which was the goal. Anyone I've asked on TGi will, however, admit that they "Don't know" how good it is, just that
they went as far as possible fixing WEP with TKIP and the Michael MIC with the constraint that current h/w had to
run the code.
BTW, just replacing RC4 with AES doesn't get you all the way to RSN.
Jim
On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 15:45 US/Central, Frank wrote:
Most of the new AP hardware designs are including AES accelerator chips.
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jacques Caron wrote:
The real replacement for WEP is AES (along with other niceties 802.11i is working on), but that requires a significant hardware change (current hardware is not powerful enough to support it), so that will probably come later on.-- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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