Alloy Computer Products WDS2454AP manual III. Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP, IV .1x Security

III.Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

WEP encryption implementation was not put in place with the 802.11 standard. This means that there are about as many methods of WEP encryption as there are providers of wireless networking products. In addition, WEP is not completely secure. One piece of information still not encrypted is the MAC address, which hackers can use to break into a network by spoofing (or faking) the MAC address.

When selecting WEP encryption, click the “Use WEP Security” to enable the WEP security function.

u64-bits:selecting the 64bit, you must type 10 values in the following range (0~F, hexadecimal).

u128-bits: selecting the 128bit, you must type 26 values in the following range (0~F, hexadecimal).

IV. 802.1x Security

To address the shortcomings of WEP for authentication, the industry is working towards solutions based on the 802.1x specification, which is based on the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). EAP was designed with flexibility in mind, and it has been used as the basis for a number of network authentication extensions.

Click to enable the 802.1x security function.

uKey Size: select either 64bit or 128-bit for the key size of the 802.1x security.

uGroup Key Setting:

No Rekeying: the clients will not need to re-key the password to authenticate with the Radius Server.

Rekeying Time: Type in the time in minutes when clients will need to re-key the password for authentication and security.

Rekeying packets: Type in the amount of packets that will be transmitted before clients will need to re-key the password for authentication and security.

V.Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is the newest and most reliable standard in Wi-Fi security. Two modes are available: Pre-Shared Key and RADIUS. Pre-Shared Key gives you a choice of two encryption methods: TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol), which utilises a stronger encryption method and incorporates Message Integrity Code (MIC) to provide protection against hackers, and AES (Advanced Encryption System), which utilises a symmetric 128-Bit block data encryption.

ØDisable WPA Security: to disable the WPA security.

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