Wep/wtls?

ger the man

Can anyone please clarify the difference between WTLS and WEP?

Thank you

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meadIT

IIRC, WTLS is a certificate based authentication and WEP is just a passcode authentication.

bradtechonline

WTLS is the security layer for WAP.

TravR1

Some of these are a little tricky, aren't they? Esp. with Security+ I feel there are a lot of protocols that are very similar, or can at least be easily confused...

WTLS/WEP/SET
SSL/SSH
Digital Certificates/Digital Signatures
Asymmetric/Symmetric/Hashing
Public/Private Keys
IPSec/PKI
PAP/PPTP/L2TP
CHAP/MS-CHAP/AES
RADIUS/TACACS/TACACS+

Then don't get me started on all the encryption standards and the key lengths they use and whether they are symmetric or asymmetric and block or stream and who made it and bla bla bla.. it's very over whelming at first for beginners.

TravR1

Apologies, I never actually answered your question..

WEP provides authentication, and also encryption. Know that WEP uses the RC4 cipher. It's not considered a strong algorithm anymore. It exchanges the IV in clear text, and it does not offer key renewal.

WTLS is a member of a collection of protocols under the WAP protocol. It specifies a security standard under TLS. It's designed for low-bandwidth where lengthy delays between packet transmission and receiving... aka latency.

WEP for your wireless router, WTLS for your mobile phone and PDA.