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FTP: file transfer protocol. A TCP/IP based protocol for file transfer. FTP is defined by RFC
959.
GMK: group master key. A cryptographic key used to derive a group transient key (GTK) for
the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
GTK: group transient key. A cryptographic key used to encrypt broadcast and multicast packets
for transmissions using the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES).
HiperLAN: high-performance radio local area network. A set of wireless LAN (WLAN)
communication standards used primarily in European countries and adopted by the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
homologation: the process of certifying a product or specification to verify that it meets
regulatory standards.
IAPP: InterAP Protocol. A protocol being developed as the 802.11f version of the IEEE
802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) specification to support interoperability, mobility, handover, and
coordination among Access Points (APs). Implemented on top of IP, IAPP uses UDP/IP and
Sub-network Access Protocol (SNAP) as transfer protocols.
IAS: internet authentication service. Microsoft’s RADIUS server.
IGMP: internet group management protocol. An Internet protocol defined in RFC 2236 used
to report its multicast group membership to neighboring multicast routers.
IV: initialization vector. Random data bytes prepended to a message to make it unique.
IPsec: A Layer 3 authentication and encryption protocol. Used to secure VPNs.
MAC address: media access control address. A 6-byte hexadecimal address assigned by a
manufacturer to a device.
master secret: A code derived from the pre-master secret. A master secret is used to encrypt
Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication exchanges and to derive a pair-wise master key
(PMK).
MD5: message-digest algorithm 5. A one-way hashing algorithm used in many authentication
algorithms to derive cryptographic keys. MD5 takes a message of an arbitrary length and creates
a 128-bit message digest.
MS-CHAP: Microsoft challenge handshake authentication protocol. Microsoft’s extension to
CHAP. MS-CHAP is a mutual authentication protocol that also permits a single login in a
Microsoft network environment.
NAT: network address translation. RFC 3022 defines a way to translate global routable IP
addresses into local and private non-routable ones.
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