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Authentication Type To provide a certain level of security, t
he IEEE
802.11 standard has defined two types of
authentication methods, Open System and Shared
Key. W ith Open System authentication, a wireless
PC can join an y network and receive any messages
that are not encr ypted. With Shared Ke y
authentication, only t
hose PCs that possess the
correct authentication key can join the network. By
default, IEEE 802.11 wireless devices operate in an