SMC Networks SMCWBR11S-N manual Personal Security, WPA/WPA2

CHAPTER 8 AP Client Mode Wireless Configuration

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PERSONAL SECURITY

For small home or office networks, WPA and WPA2 provide a simple “personal” operating mode that uses a pre-shared key for network access. This mode uses a common password phrase for user authentication that is manually entered on an AP and all wireless clients.

Figure 57: WPA Security

The following items are displayed for WPA-personal security:

◆WPA Algorithms — Configure the encryption algorithm for WPA/ WPA2-Personal security. The selection options are TKIP and AES.

■TKIP — Use Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) keys for encryption. WPA specifies TKIP as the data encryption method to replace WEP. TKIP avoids the problems of WEP static keys by dynamically changing data encryption keys.

■AES — Use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) keys for encryption. AES (AES-CCMP) provides extremely robust data confidentiality using a 128-bit key and is specified as a standard requirement for WPA2. Before implementing WPA2 in the network, be sure client devices are upgraded to WPA2-compliant hardware.

◆Pass Phrase — The WPA pre-shared Key can be entered as an ASCII string (an easy-to-remember form of letters and numbers that can include spaces) or Hexadecimal format. (Range: 8~63 ASCII characters, or exactly 64 Hexadecimal digits)

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