Reply To: OCU C)HT B Discussion Lesson 12

There are seven main WiFi standards which are IEEE 802.11a, 802.11ac, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11be, and 802.11ac. The different types of encryption for these WiFi standards are WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3. Most networks nowadays are using WPA2 or starting to integrate WPA3 because they are the newer standards for encryption and WEP has been around for a long time. WEP has been around since 1997 which at the time was very evolutionary but since it’s been around for so long people have also had more time to try and figure out how to decrypt WiFi’s using their standard. WPA2 on the other hand, is a newer version of WPA which has all the same features just upgraded and more modernized. I’ve also had more experience using this standard of WiFi encryption because it’s what my home WiFi uses.