Ovation Software Ovation - Manual (Page 37)

Wireless Security Settings
Protect your data
Data sent through a wired or wireless network is transmitted as plain text.
Anyone able to break into your network can intercept and read the data.
Encryption minimizes this security risk because the data is converted into a
nonreadable format.
Your Ovation supports Wired Equivalent Protection (WEP) and WiFi Protected
Access (WPA PSK) encryption. Encryption is disabled on your Ovation by default.
Wired Equivalent Protection (WEP)
This type of encryption is based on the RC4 encryption algorithm. The algorithm
is generated based on a key that everyone in the network shares to encode and
decode data.
The network card in your computer uses the encryption key to encode data that
leaves the computer. When the data arrives at your Ovation, the encryption key
is used again to decode the data into its original form.
You can set up your Ovation to provide encryption only protection using
open system mode or you can add authentication using shared key mode.
You should change the WEP encryption key on a regular basis to maintain the
effectiveness of WEP.
Setting up WEP on your Ovation
To set up a WEP encryption code for your network, manually enter a key using
the following characters (a number combination between 0 and 9 and letters
between a and f). This code is not case sensitive. For example: AA is the same
as aa. The encryption code can contain up to 26 characters and may not
contain any spaces.
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