EnGenius Wireless USB
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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 (Hex or ASCII): 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 OK 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.
2.3.5. WPA, WPA2 Authentication & TKIP, AES Encryption
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security
features of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). This is used along with 802.1x
security setting. 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. 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.
