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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

During a wireless engagement you inspect an access point's RSN information element and note these lines:

Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP AKM Suites : PSK

If a typical 802.11 client associates using its default "automatic" settings, which cipher will actually protect broadcast and multicast frames on this WPA2-PSK network, and why is that choice considered weak?

  • GCMP, because WPA2 automatically upgrades group traffic to Galois/Counter Mode for integrity and confidentiality.

  • TKIP, because WPA2 uses the AP-defined Group Temporal Key based on RC4, which is susceptible to IV reuse and MIC attacks.

  • CCMP, because clients always prefer the strongest available cipher, making broadcast traffic safe with AES-128.

  • WEP-104, because mixed-mode WPA2 falls back to legacy WEP for group frames, exposing weak IV protection.

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