Panasonic PT-LB90NT, TH-LB20NT Glossary, Infrastructure mode, Open System, Shared Key, Advanced

Glossary (cont.)

Category	Item	Descriptions	Page
	AD_HOC	This is the mode in which computers communicate with each other	25
		directly, rather than via access points.	54
	INFRASTRUCTURE	This is the mode in which communications are performed via the	24
	(infrastructure mode)	access point.	54
	SSID	Abbreviation for Service Set ID. The SSID identification code must	25
		be set to distinguish equipment included in a wireless LAN that uses	54
		access points from equipment not included in that LAN.
		This may appear as the “ESSID” or the “network name” for wireless
		LAN adapters made by some manufacturers.
	Open System/	This is an authentication of wireless signals employing a public key	25
	OPEN	encryptosystem.	54
	Shared Key/	This is a secret key encryptosystem for wireless signals in which	25
	SHARED	authentication is performed with a key pre-set in the WEP.	54
		Other terms for this method, in which the same key is used for both
Advanced		encryption and decryption, are “shared key encryptosystem” and
		“common key encryptosystem”.
setting of
	WPA-PSK	This is a standard covering encryption methods used in wireless LAN.	54
connection
	WPA2-PSK	It provides greater security than WEP, and has functions such as a	55
		user authentication function and also TKIP (encryption protocol) which
		automatically changes the encryption key at fixed intervals.
		And this authentication requires no authentication server.
	WEP	Abbreviation for Wired Equivalent Privacy. This is a method for	17
		encrypting communication data. The encryption key is created and	25
		notified only to the communicating user, so the communication data	54
		cannot be decrypted by a third party.	55
	TKIP	Abbreviation for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.	54
		This encryption protocol provides even greater security than WEP
		because it changes the encryption key at fixed intervals.
	AES	Next generation standard cryptography standerdized by the National	17
		Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).	54
		AES: Advanced Encryption Standard	55
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