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<h2 id="secure-transmission-over-wireless-infrastructure">Secure transmission over wireless infrastructure</h2> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy/LHqkdrCf">Wired Equivalent Privacy</a></p> <p>WEP is a deprecated algorithm to secure IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. Wireless networks broadcast messages using radio, so are more susceptible to eavesdropping than wired networks. When introduced in 1999, WEP was intended to provide confidentiality comparable to that of a traditional wired network. A later system, called <a href="/facts/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access/a6XvwpFK">Wi-Fi Protected Access</a> (WPA) has since been developed to provide stronger security. </p> <h2 id="web-based-secure-transmission">Web-based secure transmission</h2> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Transport_Layer_Security/pGy16TnA">Transport Layer Security</a></p> <p><a href="/facts/Transport_Layer_Security/pGy16TnA">Transport Layer Security</a> (TLS) and its predecessor, <a href="/facts/Secure_Sockets_Layer/pGy16TnA">Secure Sockets Layer</a> (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other data transfers. There are slight differences between SSL and TLS, but they are substantially the same.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"What is TLS & How Does it Work? | ISOC Internet Society". Internet Society. Retrieved 2021-11-14. <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/tls/basics/" target="_blank">https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/tls/basics/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>