Panasonic PT-LB50NTE manual Glossary, Open System, Shared Key, Advanced, Connection

Glossary (cont.)

Category	Item	Description		Page
	AD_HOC	This is the mode in which computers		17/
		communicate with each other directly, rather		50
		than via access points.
	INFRASTRUCTURE	This is the mode in which communications		19/
	(infrastructure mode)	are performed via the access point.		50
	SSID	Abbreviation for Service Set ID. The SSID		17/
		identification code must be set to distinguish		50
		equipment included in a wireless LAN that
		uses access points from equipment not
		included in that LAN.
		This may appear as the “ESSID” or the
		“network name” for wireless LAN cards
		made by some manufacturers.
	Open System/	This is an authentication of wireless signals		17/
	OPEN	employing a public key encryptosystem.		50
	Shared Key/	This is a secret key encryptosystem for		17/
	SHARED	wireless signals in which authentication is		50
		performed with a key pre-set in the WEP.
		Other terms for this method, in which the
		same key is used for both encryption and
Advanced		decryption, are “shared key encryptosystem”
		and “common key encryptosystem”.
setting of
	WPA-PSK	This is a standard covering encryption		50
connection
		methods used in wireless LAN. It provides
		greater security than WEP, and has functions
		such as a user authentication function and also
		TKIP (encryption protocol) which automatically
		changes the encryption key at fixed intervals.
	WEP	Abbreviation for	Wired Equivalent	17/
		Privacy. This is a method for encrypting		51
		communication data. The encryption
		key is created and notified only to the
		communicating user, so the communication
		data cannot be decrypted by a third party.
	TKIP	Abbreviation for Temporal Key Integrity		51
		Protocol.
		This encryption protocol provides even
		greater security	than WEP because
		it changes the encryption key at fixed
		intervals.
	AES	These are the US Government’s next-		15/
		generation standard encryption methods,		51/
		the selection work of which is performed		59
		by the National Institute of Standards and
		Technology (NIST).

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