Exam 200-355 | Question id=2307 | 802.11 Technology Fundamentals |
Which key is established using the four-way handshake during the WPA authentication process?
A. |
Pairwise Master Key | |
B. |
Pairwise Multiple Key | |
C. |
Pairwise Session Key | |
D. |
Pairwise Transient Key | |
E. |
Pairwise Transverse Key |
The authentication process leaves two considerations: the access point (AP) still needs to authenticate itself to the client station (STA), and keys to encrypt the traffic need to be derived. The earlier EAP exchange or WPA2-PSK configuration has provided the shared secret key PMK (Pairwise Master Key). To derive the PMK from the WPA-PSK, the PSK is put through PBKDF2-SHA1 as the cryptographic hash function. This key is, however, designed to last the entire session and should be exposed as little as possible. Therefore the four-way handshake is used to establish another key called the PTK (Pairwise Transient Key). The PTK is generated by concatenating the following attributes: PMK, AP nonce (ANonce), STA nonce (SNonce), AP MAC address, and STA MAC address. The product is then put through a pseudo random function.