EnGenius Technologies EnGenius 11b/g Wireless SOHO Router 1.2 - Manual (Page 33)

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Wireless Security – WPA / WPA2-Mixed
ƒ Select WPA or WPA2-Mixed from the drop-down list if your wireless network uses
WPA 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 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.
ƒ Encryption: Select WPA or WPA2-Mixed from the drop-down list in order to enable
WPA security.
ƒ WPA Authentication Mode: Select Enterprise (Radius) or Personal (Pre-Shared
Key). If you select Enterprise (radius) then the pass key is located on the RADIUS
server, however, if you select Personal (Pre-Shared Key) then you may assign a
key on this configuration page.
ƒ WPA / WPA2 Cipher Suite: Select TKIP or AES as the cipher suite. The encryption
algorithm used to secure the data communication. TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity
Protocol) provides per-packet key generation and is based on WEP. AES (Advanced
Encryption Standard) is a very secure block based encryption. Note that, if the bridge
uses the AES option, the bridge can associate with the access point only if the
access point is also set to use only AES. The device negotiates the cipher type with
the access point, and uses AES when available.
ƒ Pre-Shared Key: The key is entered as a pass-phrase of up to 63 alphanumeric
characters in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) format at
both ends of the wireless connection. It cannot be shorter than eight characters,
although for proper security it needs to be of ample length and should not be a
commonly known phrase. This phrase is used to generate session keys that are
unique for each wireless client.
ƒ Authentication Radius Sever: If you have selected Enterprise (Radius) as the
authentication type then you must specify the RADIUS port number, IP address, and
password.