Re: Authentication Status

Le jeudi 17 mai 2007 à 14:38 +0530, saudi sans a écrit :
> Irrespective of EAP type used , How does a wireless AP know if the
> connecting client is authenticated one or not ? Is there something
> like session-id or something that is appended with every packet.

In WPA/WPA2, EAP authentication leads to a key hierarchy setup on client
and AP. Theses keys will be used for encryption and
authentication/integrity checks. Thus, if you're not authenticated, you
don't have the right key set and you can't build frames properly.


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