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Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol definition - hacker
Pronounced peep. An authentication type for wireless networks that provides a set of unique features, such as strong security, extensibility of the user database, and support for one-time password authentication, as well as the aging of passwords. PEAP is based on an Internet Draft (I-D) to the IETF.

See Also: Authentication; Internet Engineering Task Force; Wireless.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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