Securing Your Wi-Fi Network; Wep (Wired Equivalent Privacy); 64-Bit Wep - Belkin F5D7230-4 User Manual

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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 three
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)

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) 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
48 48
Wi-Fi Protected With Protected
Access-TKIP Access
WPA-TKIP WPA-AES
Best Best
Dynamic key Dynamic key
encryption encryption
and mutual and mutual
authentication authentication
TKIP (temporal AES (Advanced
key integrity Encryption
protocol) Standard) does
added so not cause any
that keys are throughput
rotated and loss
encryption is
strengthened