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8. D. Open system authentication is addressed in the original IEEE 802.11 standard and

requires a wireless client device to authenticate to an access point in order to associate.

Shared key authentication is legacy and flawed and either cannot or should not be used.

Open system authentication is a “null” authentication, is automatic and not secure. For

more information, see Chapter 7.