Which key is established using the four-way handshake during the WPA authentication process?

Posted by: Pdfprep Category: 200-355 Tags: , ,

Which key is established using the four-way handshake during the WPA authentication process?
A . Pairwise Master Key
B . Pairwise Multiple Key
C . Pairwise Session Key
D . Pairwise Transient Key
E . Pairwise Transverse Key

Answer: D

Explanation:

The authentication process leaves two considerations: the access point (AP) still needs to authenticate itself to the client station (STA), and keys to encrypt the traffic need to be derived. The earlier EAP exchange or WPA2-PSK configuration has provided the shared secret key PMK (Pairwise Master Key). To derive the PMK from the WPA-PSK, the PSK is put through PBKDF2-SHA1 as the cryptographic hash function. This key is, however, designed to last the entire session and should be exposed as little as possible. Therefore the four-way handshake is used to establish another key called the PTK (Pairwise Transient Key). The PTK is generated by concatenating the following attributes: PMK, AP nonce (ANonce), STA nonce (SNonce), AP MAC address, and STA MAC address. The product is then put through a pseudo random function.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i-2004