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wireless network privacy and security.
WPA2 – is short for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2. It is the follow on
security method to WPA for wireless networks that provides stronger data
protection and network access control. It provides enterprise and consumer
Wi-Fi users with a high level of assurance that only authorized users can
access their wireless networks. There are two versions of WPA2: WPA2-
Personal, and WPA2- Enterprise. WPA2-Personal protects unauthorized
network access by utilizing a set-up password. WPA2-Enterprise verifies
network users through a server. WPA2 is backward compatible with WPA.
WPA-PSK – is short for Wi-Fi Protected Access-Pre-Shared Key. WPA-
PSK uses the same encryption way with WPA, and the only difference
between them is that WPA-PSK recreates a simple shared key, instead of
using the user
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s certification.
TKIP – is short for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol . TKIP scrambles
the keys using a hashing algorithm and, by adding an integrity-checking
feature, ensures that the keys haven
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t been tampered with.
AES – is short for Advanced Encryption Standard . AES is a symmetric
128-bit block data encryption technique. It has a fixed block size of
128-bits and a key size of 128, 192, or 256-bits.
Pass Phrase – Pass Phrase also named Shared Secret which is used
only when enabling WPA-PSK authentication. A passphrase is a string
of characters longer than the usual password (which is typically from
four to 16 characters long) that is used in creating a digital signature (an
encoded signature that proves to someone that it was really you who sent a
message) or in an encryption or a decryption of a message. It is applicable
only when you select WPA-PSK authentication. You will need to enter
an 8~63 characters password to start the encryption process, which will
generate four WEP keys automatically.
RADIUS – is short for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service,
an authentication and accounting system used by many Internet Service
Providers (ISPs). RADIUS setup is used to set up additional parameters for