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      802.11i

      802.11 amendment; security enhancements; provided for TKIP/RC4 (deprecated) and CCMP/AES cipher suites.

      An 802.11 amendment, now incorporated into the most recent roll-up, which provided security enhancements to the standard and resolved weaknesses in the original WEP encryption solution. It provided for TKIP/RC4 (now deprecated) and CCMP/AES cipher suites and encryption algorithms.