Wireless Adapter RNX-N1/N1MAC User Manual
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other wireless clients, all the wireless devices in this network must have the same
encryption key or pass phrase. The following information is included in this tab, as the
image depicts below.
• Authentication Type: Select Open or Shared from the drop-down list.
• Encryption: Select WEP from the drop-down list.
• WEP Key: Type a character string into the field.
For 64-bit enter 5 alphanumeric or 10 hexadecimal characters.
For 128-bit enter 13 alphanumeric or 26 hexadecimal characters.
• Click on the Apply button to save the changes.
• Show Password check box. If you want to make sure the accuracy of password you
type, click the Show Password box to check it.
2.4.2 WPA, WPA2 Authentication & TKIP, AES Encryption
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security features of WEP
(Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with existing Wi-Fi
products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved data encryption
through the Temporal Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the keys using a hashing
algorithm and by adding an integrity-checking feature which makes sure that keys haven’t
been tampered with. EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is an extension to the PPP
protocol that enables a variety of authentication protocols to be used. It passes through the
exchange of authentication messages, allowing the authentication software stored in a
server to interact with its counterpart in the client.