Wireless Security - D-Link M30 User Manual

Appendix D - Wireless Security
This section introduces different encryption levels and types you can use to better protect your data from intruders. The
router offers some of the following types of security protocols:
• WPA3 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 3)
• WPA2-PSK (Pre-Shared Key)
• WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key)
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), is a Wi-Fi standard that was designed to improve the security features of Wired Equivalent
Privacy (WEP).
The 2 major improvements over WEP:
• Improved data encryption through the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). TKIP scrambles keys using a hash-
ing algorithm and by adding an integrity-checking feature to ensure that the keys have not been tampered.
WPA2 is based on 802.11i and uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) instead of TKIP.
• User authentication through the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), which is generally missing in WEP. WEP
regulates access to a wireless network based on a computer's hardware-specific MAC address, which is relatively
simple to be sniffed out and stolen. EAP is built on a more secure public-key encryption system to ensure that
only authorized network users can access the network.
WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK/WPA3-SAE uses a passphrase or key to authenticate your wireless connection. The key is an alpha-nu-
meric password between 8 and 63 characters long. The password can include symbols (!?*&_) and spaces. This key must be
the exact same key entered on your wireless router or access point.
WPA/WPA2 incorporates user authentication through the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). EAP is built on a more
secure public key encryption system to ensure that only authorized network users can access the network.
WPA3 has the strongest encryption among these with an increased cryptographic capability and the requirements of the
Protected Management Frames (PMFs) to facilitate protection from snooping attack.
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Wireless Security

• WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2)
• WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access)
What is WPA?
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