Securing Your Wi-Fi Network - Belkin F5D7230-4 User Manual

Using the Web-Based Advanced User Interface
Securing your Wi-Fi
Here are a few different ways you can maximize the security of your
wireless network and protect your data from prying eyes and ears .
This section is intended for the home, home office, and small office
user .
At the time of this User Manual's publication, there are four
encryption methods available .
Name 64-Bit Wired
Equivalent
Privacy
Acronym 64-bit WEP
Security Good
Features Static keys
Encryption
keys based
on RC4
algorithm
(typically
40-bit keys)
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
WEP is a common protocol that adds security to all Wi-Fi-compliant
wireless products . WEP was designed to give wireless networks the
equivalent level of privacy protection as a comparable wired network .
64-Bit WEP
64-bit WEP was first introduced with 64-bit encryption, which
includes a key length of 40 bits plus 24 additional bits of system-
generated data (64 bits total) . Some hardware manufacturers refer
to 64-bit as 40-bit encryption . Shortly after the technology was
introduced, researchers found that 64-bit encryption was too easy to
decode .
Network
®
128-Bit Wired
Equivalent
Privacy
128-bit WEP
Better
Static keys
More secure
than 64-bit
WEP using a
key length of
104 bits plus
24 additional
bits of system-
generated data
52 52
Wi-Fi Protected Wi-Fi Protected
Access-TKIP Access 2
WPA-TKIP/AES WPA2-AES
(or just WPA) (or just WPA2)
Best Best
Dynamic key Dynamic key
encryption encryption
and mutual and mutual
authentication authentication
TKIP (Temporal AES (Advanced
Key Integrity Encryption
Protocol) Standard)
added so does not
that keys are cause any
rotated and throughput loss
encryption is
strengthened