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CM1 USER MANUAL
WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy. It is based on the IEEE 802.11 standard
and uses the RC4 encryption algorithm. WEP provides security by data
encryption on your wireless network, so that to ensure secure transitions from
one wireless device to the other.
To access a WEP network, you must know the key. Key is a code string. When
using WEP, you must specify the level of encryption. Type of encryption
determines the key length.128-bit encryption requires a longer key than 64-bit
encryption. Key id defined by HEX (16 hex -0-9, AF) or ASCII (American
Standard Code for Information Interchange - alphanumeric characters) format.
ASCII format allows you to enter a string that is easy to remember. ASCII is
converted into HEX when used on the internet. Four keys can be defined for
easy changing if needed.
WPA or Wi-Fi Protected Access is a Wi-Fi standard, designed to improve WEP
(Wired Equivalent Privacy) security features.
There are two major improvements over WEP:
It improved data encryption through the Temporal Key Integrity
Protocol (TKIP). TKIP messes the keys using a hash algorithm, and
ensures that the keys are not changed by adding integrity-checking
What is WPA?
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