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Appendix B Wireless LANs
First enter identical passwords into the AP and all wireless clients. The Pre-Shared
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Key (PSK) must consist of between 8 and 63 ASCII characters or 64 hexadecimal
characters (including spaces and symbols).
The AP checks each wireless client's password and (only) allows it to join the
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network if the password matches.
The AP and wireless clients use the pre-shared key to generate a common PMK
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(Pairwise Master Key).
Figure 169 The AP and wireless clients use the TKIP or AES encryption process to encrypt
data WPA(2)-PSK Authentication
Security Parameters Summary
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Refer to this table to see what other security parameters you should configure for
each Authentication Method/ key management protocol type. MAC address filters
are not dependent on how you configure these security features.
Table 86 Wireless Security Relational Matrix
AUTHENTICATION
METHOD/ KEY
MANAGEMENT
PROTOCOL
Open
Open
Shared
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ENCRYPTIO ENTER
MANUAL KEY IEEE 802.1X
N METHOD
None No
WEP No
Yes
Yes
WEP No
Yes
Yes
Disable
Enable without Dynamic WEP
Key
Enable with Dynamic WEP Key
Enable without Dynamic WEP
Key
Disable
Enable with Dynamic WEP Key
Enable without Dynamic WEP
Key
Disable
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