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Originally Posted by bendsley
The Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, pronounced tee-kip, is part of the IEEE 802.11i encryption standard for wireless LANs. TKIP is the next generation of WEP, the Wired Equivalency Protocol, which is used to secure 802.11 wireless LANs. TKIP provides per-packet key mixing, a message integrity check and a re-keying mechanism, thus fixing the flaws of WEP.
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Actually, the message integrity check is provided by a seperate protocol called (appropriately enough) MIC, or Message Integrity Check.
Also, it's entirely possible to use TKIP and not 802.11i. TKIP is also used as the encryption standard in WPA.
Mr Mephisto