Background on WPA
The original security mechanism of the IEEE 802.11 standard wasn't designed to be strong and has proven to be insufficient
for most networks that require some kind of security. Task group I (Security) of the IEEE 802.11 working group ( http://www.ieee802.org/11/
) has worked to address the flaws of the base standard and has in practice completed its work in May 2004. The IEEE 802.11i
amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard was approved in June 2004 and published in July 2004.
WPA utilities
The wlconfig library is a generic configuration library that interfaces to the supplicant and provides a programmatic interface for configuring
your wireless connection.
Connecting with WPA or WPA2
Core Networking supports connecting to a wireless network using the more secure option of WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) or
WPA2 (802.11i) protocols.
Using wpa_supplicant to manage your wireless network connections
The wpa_supplicant daemon is the standard mechanism used to provide persistence of wireless networking information as
well as manage automated connections into networks without user intervention.