WPA

(in the US) abbreviation for (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration

WPA

Work Projects Administration; (earlier) Works Progress Administration.

WPA

The WPA, or Works Project Administration, was started by the U.S. Government in 1935 as a program for economic relief during the Depression years.

WPA

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(WPA), former U.S. government agency, established in 1935 by executive order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Works Progress Administration; it was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, when it was made part of the Federal
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WPA

(1935–43) provided work for unemployed construction and theater workers, artists, writers, and youth. [U.S. Hist.: NCE, 3006]See: Aid, Governmental

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access

WPA

(2) See Windows Product Activation.

(1) (Wi-Fi Protected Access) A security protocol for wireless 802.11 networks from the Wi-Fi Alliance that was developed to provide a migration from WEP. The WPA logo certifies that devices are compliant with a subset of 802.11i, while WPA2 certifies full support.

Strong Security
WPA and WPA2 use a sophisticated key hierarchy that generates new encryption keys each time a mobile device establishes itself with an access point. Protocols including 802.1X, EAP and RADIUS are used for strong authentication. A RADIUS server provides automatic key generation and enterprise-wide authentication.

For home and small business users who do not have an authentication server, WPA can be used in preshared keys (PSK) mode, which requires that a shared secret key be manually entered into the access points and each user's computer. The shared secret is used to automatically generate the encryption keys.

WPA (2003) - 802.11i Subset for Migration Upgrades
WPA's Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) uses the same RC4 algorithm as WEP for encryption but adds sophisticated key management and effective message integrity checking. TKIP was designed to be efficient enough to work in older WEP devices by updating their firmware to WPA. See WEP.

WPA2 (2004) - Full 802.11i
In addition to TKIP, WPA2 supports the AES-CCMP encryption protocol. Based on the very secure AES national standard cipher combined with sophisticated cryptographic techniques, AES-CCMP was specifically designed for wireless networks. AES-CCMP requires more computing power than TKIP, and migration from WEP to WPA2 requires new hardware. Devices running in WPA2 mode are not backward compatible with WEP. See 802.11i, AES-CCMP, 802.1X, EAP and RADIUS.

WPA3 (2018) - More Secure
WPA3 provides an encrypted connection in public hotspots. It also makes it extremely difficult to hack the password of the user's connection because a brute force attack would require interaction with the user's Wi-Fi for each "guess" (see brute force attack). In addition, if the password is eventually deciphered, "forward security" prevents the decryption of any data previously captured.

802.11 Encryption Methods

As 802.11 security protocols evolved, the encryption methods became more robust.

The Wireless Security Primer

Jon Edney and William Arbaugh's "Real 802.11 Security" (Pearson Education, 2004, ISBN 0-321-13620-9) covers every technical detail you will ever need to know about 802.11i, WPA, WEP and other related protocols. It is also a great primer on wireless security in general.

WPA

Acronym	Definition
WPA➣Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration)
WPA➣Work Projects Administration (originally Works Progress Administration)
WPA➣Wi-Fi Protected Access (802.11)
WPA➣Wireless Protected Access
WPA➣World Psychiatric Association (Association Mondiale de Psychiatrie)
WPA➣Windows Product Activation (Microsoft)
WPA➣Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC, USA)
WPA➣World Public Access
WPA➣Windows Product Activation
WPA➣Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPA➣Web Page Authoring
WPA➣Wireless Printer Adapter
WPA➣Woomera Prohibited Area (Australia)
WPA➣World Pool-Billiard Association
WPA➣Western Psychological Association
WPA➣Women's Prison Association
WPA➣Working People's Alliance (Guyana)
WPA➣Writing Program Administrator
WPA➣Western Provident Association (UK health insurer)
WPA➣Wszelkie Przejawy Artyzmu (Polish art festival)
WPA➣World Programme of Action (UN)
WPA➣Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989
WPA➣War Powers Act of 1973
WPA➣With Particular Average
WPA➣Works Progress Administration Agency (US Navy)
WPA➣Western Pyrotechnic Association
WPA➣Win Probability Added (technical baseball statistic)
WPA➣Weddings Parties Anything
WPA➣Washington Pilots Association (Washington state)
WPA➣Work Program Agreement (various organizations)
WPA➣World Potato Atlas (International Potato Center)
WPA➣Water Jet Propulsion Assembly (US DoD)
WPA➣Waste Prevention Association
WPA➣Winnipeg Partnership Agreement (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
WPA➣Wagner-Peyser Act
WPA➣West Papua Association (Australia)
WPA➣Wyoming Pipeline Authority
WPA➣World Prout Assembly
WPA➣Wi-Fi Protected Area
WPA➣Work Package Agreement (various organizations)
WPA➣Women Pay All (Olathe Northwest High School dance)
WPA➣Wizards Per Acre (Utopia game)
WPA➣Western Planning Area
WPA➣Welsh Principal Area
WPA➣Warm Pool Atmosphere
WPA➣White Paper Account (UK)
WPA➣War Plans Advisor (AFLC)
WPA➣William Preston & Associates
WPA➣Work Package Authorization
WPA➣Whole Product Approach
WPA➣Wiener process acceleration
WPA➣World Partners Association (consortium of telecommunications providers)
WPA➣wafer phased array (semiconductor manufacturing)