Using the Belkin Wireless Network Utility

Securing your Wi-Fi Network

Here are a few different ways to maximize the security of your wireless network and protect your data from unwanted intrusion. This section is intended for the home, home office, and small office user. At the time of publication, three encryption methods are available.

Encryption Methods:

Name

64-bit Wired

128-bit

Wi-Fi Protected

Wi-Fi Protected

 

Equivalent Privacy

Encryption

Access

Access

 

 

 

 

 

Acronym

64-bit WEP

128-bit WEP

WPA-TKIP

WPA-AES

 

 

 

 

 

Security

Good

Better

Best

Best

 

 

 

 

 

Features

Static keys

Static keys

Dynamic key

Dynamic key

 

 

 

encryption

encryption

 

 

 

and mutual

and mutual

 

 

 

authentication

authentication

 

Encryption keys

Added security

TKIP (temporal

AES (Advanced

 

based on RC4

over 64-bit

key integrity

Encryption

 

algorithm (typically

WEP using a

protocol) added

Standard) does

 

40-bit keys)

key length of

so that keys

not cause any

 

 

104 bits, plus

are rotated and

throughput loss

 

 

24 additional

encryption is

 

 

 

bits of system-

strengthened

 

 

 

generated data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

WEP is a common protocol that adds security to all Wi-Fi-compliant wireless products. WEP gives wireless networks the equivalent level of privacy protection as a comparable wired network.

164-Bit WEP

64-bit WEP was first introduced with 64-bit encryption, which includes a key length of 40 bits plus 24 additional bits of system-generated data (64 bits total). Some hardware manufacturers refer to 64-bit

as 40-bit encryption. Shortly after the technology was introduced, researchers found that 64-bit encryption was too easy to decode.

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