WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
An obsolete, easily broken Wi-Fi encryption standard.
WEP was the original Wi-Fi encryption scheme and is now thoroughly broken because its short initialization vectors repeat and leak key material, allowing recovery of the key after capturing enough traffic. It relies on the weak RC4 cipher and offers no real protection today. It should never be deployed, and its failure drove the move to WPA and then WPA2 with AES-based CCMP. On the exam it is the canonical example of a deprecated, insecure protocol.
Wired Equivalent Privacy: the broken original (weak RC4 plus a tiny IV). Think "Weak, Easily Penetrated."
Looking WEP up is step one. Getting tested on it is step two.
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