In my previous story, where Gartner issued a false alarm on Microsoft's new WPA2 patch that led to a rash dire warnings from the press, I tried to provide some proper context to the situation. This could have been avoided if the Wi-Fi Alliance had named the updated standards "WPA + Extended EAP" and "WPA2 + Extended EAP" because it would make it easy to differentiate between old WPA/WPA2 certified products from the newer WPA/WPA2 certified products that will support five EAP types instead of one. Although this has broadened the WPA/WPA2 standards to be more inclusive, the decision of the Wi-Fi Alliance to not rename the updated WPA and WPA2 standards is causing mass confusion within the IT industry. The confusion started last month when the Wi-Fi Alliance changed the WPA and WPA2 standards from supporting a single EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) standard to five EAP standards. If the challenge of securing a wireless LAN wasn't already confusing enough, things have just gotten worse.
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