On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:30:07 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
: John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> hath wroth:
:
: >>> You probably want WPA-PSK or what Linksys calls "WPA Personal".
: >
: >That's what the Wi-Fi Alliance calls it too. ;) The RADIUS version is
: >"WPA Enterprise".
:
: That's because the Wi-Fi Alliance trademarked the terms WPA Personal,
: WPA Enterprise, and such. IEEE802.11i-2004 calls it PSK but doesn't
: even mention WPA. Even the acronym list doesn't mention WPA. The
: Wi-Fi Alliance apparently licenses the use of the various trademarked
: WPA and WPA2 terms:
: http://www.wi-fi.org/termsofuse.php (see trademarks section)
: http://www.wi-fi.org/brand_usage.php

To those of us of a certain age, "WPA" stands for "Works Progress
Administration", the makework program set up by Franklin Roosevelt to combat
the effects of the Great Herbert Clark Hoover Republican Depression of the
1930s. Unemployed laborers fixed roads, planted trees, spruced up national
parks, etc. Unemployed mathematicians were put to work calculating logarithms
by hand. Until the late 1950s, when computers started taking over such
calculations, the "WPA tables" were considered the most accurate and reliable
tables of logarithms ever published.