Personal security personal security settings, Your wireless adapter. refer to, Personal security – Intel 3945ABG User Manual

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your access point (for home users). Refer to

Enterprise Security

.

For general information about security settings, refer to

Security Overview

.

Personal Security

Use Personal Security if you are a home or small business user who can use a variety of simple security

procedures to protect your wireless connection. Select from the list of security settings that do not require

extensive infrastructure setup for your wireless network. A

RADIUS

or

AAA

server is not required.

Review the

Set up Data Encryption and Authentication

information to learn about the different security

types.

To add or change the required security settings, click

Security Settings

for information to set security for

the selected wireless network.

See

Profile Management

for a description of when to use the Profile Wizard.

See

Security Overview

for more information about the different security options for wireless networks.

If you want to verify the security settings, select a wireless network in the Wireless Networks list. Click

Details

to review the operating mode, authentication level and data encryption.

See

Enterprise Security

to set 802.1x authentication security.

Personal Security Settings

Personal Security Settings Description

None WEP CKIP TKIP AES-CCMP

Name

Setting

Personal Security

Select to open the Personal Security settings. The security settings that are available

are dependent on the Operating Mode selected in the

Profile Wizard

:

Device to Device

(ad hoc)

or

Network (Infrastructure)

.

Data Encryption

If you configure a profile for a Device to Device (ad hoc) network, select

None

: No authentication required.

WEP-64 bit

or

WEP-128 bit:

A network key or password is used for encryption.

If you configure an profile for an Infrastructure network, select:

None

: No authentication required.

WEP-64 bit

or

WEP-128 bit

: A network key or password is used for encryption.

WPA-Personal (TKIP)

or

WPA2-Personal (TKIP)

: WPA-Personal utilizes the

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for data encryption.

WPA-Personal (AES-CCMP)

or

WPA2-Personal (AES-CCMP)

: WPA-Personal

utilizes a new method for privacy protection of wireless transmissions specified

in the IEEE 802.11i standard, AES-CCMP

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