AWK-5232
Web Console Configuration
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Security mode
Setting
Description
Factory Default
Open
No authentication
Open
WEP
Static WEP is used
WPA
WPA is used
WPA2
Fully supports IEEE 802.11i with “TKIP/AES + 802.1X” in
802.11a/b/g mode; supports IEEE 802.11i with "AES +
802.1X" in 802.11n mode
Open
For security reasons, it is highly recommended that the security mode should be set to the options other than
Open System. When the security mode is set to Open System, no authentication or data encryption will be
performed.
WEP
According to the IEEE802.11 standard, WEP can be used for authentication and data encryption
(confidentiality). Shared (or Shared Key) authentication type is used if WEP authentication and data
encryption are both needed. Normally, Open (or Open System) authentication type is often used when WEP
data encryption is run with authentication.
When WEP is enabled as a security mode, the length of a key (so-called WEP seed) can be specified as 64/128
bits, which is actually a 40/104-bit secret key with a 24-bit initialization vector. The AWK-5232 provides 4
entities of WEP key settings that can be selected to use with Key index. The selected key setting specifies the
key to be used as a send-key for encrypting traffic from the AP side to the wireless client side. All 4 WEP keys
are used as receive-keys to decrypt traffic from the wireless client side to the AP side.
The WEP key can be presented in two Key type, HEX and ASCII. Each ASCII character has 8 bits, so a 40-bit
(or 64-bit) WEP key contains 5 characters, and a 104-bit (or 128-bit) key has 13 characters. In hex, each
character uses 4 bits, so a 40-bit key has 10 hex characters, and a 128-bit key has 26 characters.