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• Authentication Type: Select Open or Shared from the drop-down list.
• Encryption: Select WEP from the drop-down list.
• WEP Key: Type a character string into the field.
For 64-bit enter 5 alphanumeric or 10 hexadecimal characters.
For 128-bit enter 13 alphanumeric or 26 hexadecimal characters.
• Click on the Apply button to save the changes.
• Show Password check box. If you want to make sure the accuracy of password you
type, click the Show Password box to check it.
3.4.2 WPA, WPA2 Authentication & 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 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. EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is an extension to the PPP
protocol that enables a variety of authentication protocols to be used. It passes through the
exchange of authentication messages, allowing the authentication software stored in a
server to interact with its counterpart in the client.