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An analyst wants to implement a more secure wireless authentication for office access points. Which of the following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?

  • A. PEAP
  • B. EAP
  • C. WPA2
  • D. RADIUS
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
EAP by itself is only an authentication framework.
PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol) fully encapsulates EAP and is designed to work within a TLS (Transport Layer Security) tunnel that may be encrypted but is authenticated. The primary motivation behind the creation of PEAP was to help correct the deficiencies discovered within EAP since that protocol assumes that the communications channel is protected. As a result, when EAP messages are able to be discovered in the ג€clearג€ they do not provide the protection that was assumed when the protocol was originally authored.
PEAP, EAP-TTLS, and EAP-TLS ג€protectג€ inner EAP authentication within SSL/TLS sessions.

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Faiz
Highly Voted 4 years, 10 months ago
Peap - Used for authentication WPA2 - Used for encryption. Hence why it is PEAP
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vaxakaw829
Highly Voted 4 years, 4 months ago
Guys, its so simple if you keep these in mind: - WPA2 is among Wireless Cryptographic Protocols - PEAP is among Wireless Authentication Protocols - RADIUS is a Remote Access Connection and Authentication Service - EAP by itself is only an authentication framework
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Hanzero
Most Recent 4 years, 2 months ago
PEAP= used for wireless networks.
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WDE2015
4 years, 4 months ago
The Answer should be WPA2 there asking the technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless. Prior to April 2010 the wi-fi alliance had not certified and included EAP and the other extension used with WPA-WPA2 Enterprise. PEAP Encapsulates and encrypts data in a TLS tunnel. WPA2- Enterprise is your access point security mode. There are two questions that are asked this is one of them the other is which technologies ENCRYPTS authentication of wireless clients over TLS and the answer is PEAP. Again this is asking which of the following technologies ALLOWS for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS and the answer is WPA2
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MelvinJohn
4 years, 6 months ago
C WPA2 - The question says "allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS." That would indicate either PEAP or WPA2-Enterprise, since they both use TLS. But WPA2-Enterprise authenticates BOTH the client and the server via certificates, and PEAP is NOT required to use a client-side certificate, so WPA2-Enterprise is more secure. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/nativewifi/wpa2-enterprise-with-tls-profile-sample Not (A) PEAP requires ONLY server-side certificates to authenticate – and does not require client-side certificates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Extensible_Authentication_Protocol
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Hot_156
4 years, 6 months ago
WPA2 is not an authentication protocol... google authentication protocols! the answer here is correct
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JacobCrane
4 years, 4 months ago
I says "Which of the following TECHNOLOGIES allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?", its not asking for the most secure PROTOCOL but the most secure TECHNOLOGY. I am thinking its WPA2 if its WPA2-Enterprise. I think that the provided answer is PEAP correct.
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MANOFTHEHOUSE
4 years, 6 months ago
PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol) is a version of EAP, the authentication protocol used in wireless networks and Point-to-Point connections. PEAP is designed to provide more secure authentication for 802.11 WLANs (wireless local area networks) that support 802.1X port access control.
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forward
4 years, 9 months ago
The question states MORE secure and EAP is Extensible Authentication Protocol PEAP is (Protected) Extensible Authentication Protocol, ie MORE secure.
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gm4pack
5 years ago
PEAP is primarily used in Wireless LAN networks though it can also be used for wired authentication, Network Access Protection (NAP)
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Abner89
5 years, 6 months ago
more secure
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badgriff85
5 years, 8 months ago
Can someone explain why the answer is WPA2 and not PEAP
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a1037040
5 years, 1 month ago
? Answer is showing PEAP (which is correct)
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Snellers
4 years ago
after reading the discussions from a year ago on some answers it looks like the revealed answers have changed over time
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