How Wifis and wifi security work?
- HowStuffWorks: How WiFi Works
- 6 Steps to Secure Your Home Wireless Network
- SANS paper: How Things Work: WLAN Technologies and Security Mechanisms (PDF)
- Nice SecurityFocus article Coffee shop WiFi (2006)
- WarDrive.net
- Getting deep at SANS
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Breaking WEP Encryption
- WEP Security Called Unreliable, has a paper reference.
And, 10 Tips for Wireless Home Network Security
I skipped the Wikipedia, but you can look it up from these references.
The podcast "Security Now" did a full show about wifi security, you can find the transcript here :
http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-170.htm (in pdf here)
It is very detailed :
Steve: No. No. And there again, AES is a cipher called "Rijndael." TKIP is a protocol. CCMP is the protocol which uses AES. I mean, so my point is...