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3.2.2.2.2 WPA
WPA
(Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security features
of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with
existing Wi-FI products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved
data encryption through the Temporal Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the
keys using a hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity-checking feature which
makes sure that keys haven’t been tampered with.
If your network uses
WPA,
select that radio button. You must then select an
EAP
type from the drop-down list. The two options available are: TLS and PEAP. Each
one is described below.
3.2.2.2.2.1 WPA – TLS
EAP
(Extensible Authentication Protocol) is an extension to the PPP protocol that
enables a variety of authentication protocols to be used. It passes through the
exchange of authentication messages, allowing the authentication software stored in
a server to interact with its counterpart in the client.
TLS
(Transport Layer Security) is an IETF standardized authentication protocol that
uses PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificate-based authentication of both the client
and authentication server.
Select
TLS
from the drop-down list, and then click on the
Configure
button. The
Client Utility will then search your computer for any certificates. If you do not have
any certificates, you will see the following message, requiring you to select another
EAP option. Click on the
OK
button.
