Last week, you may have read the headline "WPA Cracked!" or something to that effect. Just to clear things up now, it is not the overall standard that has been "cracked" but the simpler implementation ...

Wireless routers have two sets of passwords: one that allows users to join it when it is using a wireless encryption method such as WPA-PSK, and another for accessing its administrative control panel.

For smaller networks on which keys can be manually defined, IKE preshared keys (PSKs) can be used. PSKs are manually defined in the IKE policy of each crypto endpoint. Once crypto and ISAKMP policies ...