Data Encryption With Wep - SMC Networks SMCWUSB-N User Manual

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E W E P
NCRYPTION WITH
The WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) security protocol is an encryption method designed to try to make
wireless networks as secure as wired networks. WEP encryption scrambles all data packets transmitted
between the adapter and the access point or other wireless stations to keep network communications private.
Both the wireless stations and the access points must use the same WEP key for data encryption and
decryption.
There are two ways to create WEP keys in your adapter.
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Automatic WEP key generation based on a password phrase called a passphrase. The passphrase is
case sensitive. You must use the same passphrase for all WLAN adapters with this feature in the
same WLAN.
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For WLAN adapters without the passphrase feature, you can still take advantage of this feature by
writing down the four automatically generated WEP keys from the Security Settings screen of the
wireless utility and entering them manually as the WEP keys in the other WLAN adapter(s).
The adapter allows you to configure up to four WEP keys and only one key is used as the default transmit
key at any one time.
T adapter
HE SUPPORTS UP TO FOUR
D
O NOT ATTEMPT TO CONFIGURE OR CHANGE SECURITY SETTTINGS FOR A
NETWORK WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION AND WITHOUT CLEARLY UNDERSTANDING
THE SETTINGS YOU ARE APPLING.
DATA YOU SEND CAN BE SEEN BY OTHERS
64- or 128- WEP
BIT BIT
W
ITH POOR SECURITY SETTINGS, SENSITIVE
KEYS.
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