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| | Wireless LAN Security Site |
 | | That task was left to IEEE 802.11 Task Group I. Since IEEE 802.1X is not a cipher, it is not an alternative to WEP, 3DES, AES, or any other cipher. |
 | | IEEE 802.1X is an IEEE standard (approved, June 2001) that enables authentication and key management for IEEE 802 Local Area Networks, including Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI. |
 | | IEEE 802.1X "network Port Authentication" was designed to scale with Ethernet, adding no per-packet overhead, and bringing the management technology of dialup networks to the wired and wireless LAN worlds. |
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