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Establishing Security for Your Wireless LAN
Establishing Security for Your Wireless LAN
To prevent unauthorized viewing of data transmitted over your WLAN, you must encrypt your wireless trans-
missions.
If all of your wireless clients support WPA encryption, we recommend using WPA instead of WEP. The ben-
efits of using WPA:
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Provides a much stronger encryption and is more secure
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Provides authentication to ensure that
only
authorized users can log on to your WLAN
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It is much easier to configure
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It uses a standard algorithm on all compliant products to generate a key from a textual passphrase