Buffalo Technology WBR2-G54S user manual Characteristics

Advanced Settings

128-bit HEX: 26 digits, using characters 0-9 and a-f, “20123456789abcdeabcdeabcde”

TKIP - TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) is a WEP expanded encryption technique. TKIP has greatly improved WEP’s weaknesses by rotating secret keys between every packet. TKIP uses WPA-PSK (pre-Shared Key).

Characteristics:

-The Initialization Vector is expanded from 24-bits to 48-bits.

-The Initialization Vector is randomized.

-Uses a different RC4 key for every packet.

AES - AES further improves TKIP by using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption method. Due to its hardware co-processor, AES uses the toughest encryption without sacrifi cing throughput like WEP and TKIP.

TKIP & AES require an 8 to 63 character passphrase in ASCII or 64 digits hexadecimal key.

Example 1: [ airstation -WPA-PSK ]

Example 2: [0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef]

WPA Group Rekey Interval - When TKIP is selected, the encryption key is renewed at this inter- val. This interval is in seconds; the range of acceptable values is 0-3600.

If 0 is entered, the key is never renewed.

■Note: The lower the rekey interval, the more often a rekey occurs. Setting a low rekey interval may affect performance negatively.

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