During a wireless penetration test you capture a beacon frame from an 802.11ac access point running WPA2-Enterprise. The RSN information element shows the pairwise cipher-suite selector 00-0F-AC:04. When you set up your packet analyzer for frame decryption, which data-confidentiality algorithm does this selector indicate?
The first three octets (00-0F-AC) form the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) that the IEEE assigns to 802.11 cipher-suite selectors. The fourth octet specifies the particular cipher. In the IEEE 802.11 standard, a value of 0x04 denotes the Counter Mode with CBC-MAC Protocol (CCMP), which uses AES in counter (CTR) mode for encryption and CBC-MAC for integrity. Other common values include 0x02 for TKIP, 0x05 for WEP-104, and 0x09 for GCMP-256 (used in WPA3 Enterprise). Therefore, selector 00-0F-AC:04 corresponds to AES-CCMP.
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