Encryption
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FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN – 8 WLAN: Wireless Local Area Networks
Encryption
The most important security setting is encryption. FRITZ!Box
Fon WLAN supports the security mechanisms WEP (Wired
Equivalent Privacy), WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) and WPA2
as follows:
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As part of the WEP mechanism a static key is deter-
mined to serve for the encryption of the user data. The
key must also be entered in the WLAN settings of the
WLAN clients.
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The WPA and WPA2 mechanisms provide for authentica-
tion while the connection is being established. For this
a WPA password must be defined.
Select an encryption method to be used to encrypt the
user data:
TKIP or AES, depending on which is supported by your
WLAN adapter.
The user data are encrypted using an automatically
generated key. This key is regenerated at regular inter-
vals.
The WPA password used may be 8 to 63 characters in
length. For increased security, however, the password
should be at least 20 characters long. Use numerals,
letters and special characters and combine capitals and
lower-case letters.
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