Planet WNAP-6315 User Manual page 67

WPA2 Cipher Suite
Pre-Shared Key Format
Pre-Shared Key
Selects the data encryption type to use. (Default is determined by the
Encryption Mode selected.)
TKIP — Uses 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 — Uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) keys for encryption.
WPA2 uses AES Counter-Mode encryption with Cipher Block Chaining
Message Authentication Code (CBC-MAC) for message integrity. The AES
Counter-Mode/CBCMAC Protocol (AESCCMP) provides extremely robust
data confidentiality using a 128- bit key. Use of AES-CCMP encryption is
specified as a standard requirement for WPA2. Before implementing WPA2 in
the network, be sure client devices are upgraded to WPA2-compliant
hardware.
Specify the format of the key, pass phrase or hex.
The WPA Pre-shared Key can be input 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)
Enter the key whose format is limited by the key format.
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