CSW-H80 User Manual Ver. 3.0
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2.1.3 Authentication and Security
Authentication
A wireless LAN station should get authentication from the AP in the infrastructure
network. There are two methods for the authentication, Open system and the Shared
key.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
The WEP is a security protocol for wireless LAN. You need to set 64 bit or 128 bit key.
You can use both hexadecimal and ASCII code for this.
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access)
WPA is a security standard for users of devices equipped with wireless connection. It
is expected to replace the weakness of the original wireless security standard, Wired
Equivalent Privacy (WEP). There are two modes about the user authentication in WPA
security. One is Enterprise which has an authentication server and the other is PSK
(Pre-Shared Key) which does not have any servers.
WPA2
As final security of Wireless LAN, The Counter Mode with Cipher Block Changing
Message Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP) was suggested for IEEE80211i
(Wireless LAN standard) to replace the TKIP. CCMP uses Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES) which is adopted by WPA2. WPA 2 has also both Enterprise and PSK
mode.
CSW-H80 supports WEP, WPA-PSK (TKIP) and WPA2-PSK (AES).
