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Click on the Apply button, and then you can use the IEEE 802.1X authentication.

4.1.2.3 WPA/WPA2 Authentication with TKIP/AES Encryption

WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security features of
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with existing Wi-Fi
products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved data encryption
through the Temporal key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the keys using a
hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity checking feature which makes sure that keys
haven’t been tampered with.

Figure 4-6 More settings—TKIP

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Authentication: Select WPA from the drop-down list.

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Encryption: Select TKIP or AES from the drop-down list.

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Click on the WPA Encryption Setting button.

In this section you can configure the settings for TLS or PEAP. TLS (Transport Layer
Security) is an IETF standardized authentication protocol that uses PKI (Public Key
Infrastructure) certificate-based

authentication of both the client and

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