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P320W Support Notes
WEP Configuration
1. Introduction
The 802.11 standard describes the communication that occurs in wireless LANs.
The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm is used to protect wireless communication from
eavesdropping, because wireless transmissions are easier to intercept than transmissions over wired
networks, and wireless is a shared medium, everything that is transmitted or received over a wireless
network can be intercepted.
WEP relies on a secret key that is shared between a mobile station (e.g. a laptop with a wireless Ethernet
card) and an access point (i.e. a base station). The secret key is used to encrypt packets before they are
transmitted, and an integrity check is used to ensure that packages are not modified during the transition.
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