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advanced encryption mechanism using the Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES). AES is required by the corporate
user or government users. The difference between WPA and
WPA2 is that WPA2 provides data encryption via the AES. In
contrast, WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).
WPA2-PSK –
WPA2-PSK is also for home and small business.
The difference between WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK is that
WPA2-PSK provides data encryption via the AES. In contrast,
WPA-PSK uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).
WPA 802.1X
– Set the wireless devices using a WPA 802.1X
mode
WPA2 802.1X
– Set the wireless devices using a WPA2
802.1X mode
Data encryption
None
– Disable the encryption mode.
WEP
– Enable the WEP Data Encryption. When the item is
selected, you have to continue setting the WEP Encryption
keys.
TKIP
– TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) changes the
temporal key every 10,000 packets (a packet is a kind of
message transmitted over a network.) This ensures much
greater security than the standard WEP security.
AES
– AES has been developed to ensure the highest degree
of security and authenticity for digital information and is the
most advanced solution defined by IEEE 802.11i for security in
the wireless network.
Note: All devices in the network should use the same
encryption method to ensure the communication.
802.1x Setting
When you set the Authentication Type to Open, Shared, WPA
or WPA2, you can also enable IEEE 802.1x setting to use the
authentication server or certification server to authenticate
client users.
WPA Pre-Shared Key
The WPA-PSK key can be from 8 to 64 characters and can be
letters or numbers. This same key must be used on all of the
wireless stations in the network.
WEP Key
(Key1 ~ Key4)
The WEP keys are used to encrypt data transmitted in the
wireless network. There are two types of key length: 64-bit and
128-bit. Select the default encryption key from Key 1 to Key 4
by selected the radio button.
Fill the text box by as instructed below:
64-bit
– Input 10-digit Hex values (in the “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9”
range) or 5-digit ASCII characters (including “a-z” and “0-9”) as
the encryption keys. For example: “0123456aef“or “test1”.
128-bit
– Input 26-digit Hex values (in the “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9”
range) or 13-digit ASCII characters (including “a-z” and “0-9”)
as the encryption keys. For example:
“01234567890123456789abcdef“ or “administrator”.
