11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card
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11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card
User's Manual
“E
NCRYPTION
” tab
Figure 5 Management window with “Encryption” tab open
You may desire an additional measure of security on your wireless network, which can be
achieved by using WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption. WEP encrypts each frame
transmitted from the radio using one of the Keys entered from this panel.
When an encrypted frame is received it will only be accepted if it decrypts correctly. This will only
happen if the receiver has the WEP Key used by the transmitter.
This panel allows the entry of four keys for 64-bit encryption and one set of 128-bit key according
to WEP function select. To be written to the driver and registry, each key must consist of hex digits,
which means that only digit 0-9 and letters A-F are valid entries. If entered incorrectly program will
not write keys to a driver.
Alternatively a Pass-phrase can be entered which is used as a “seed” to randomly generate the
four keys. This saves considerable time since the same keys must be entered into each node on
the wireless network.
