Wpa Enterprise (Wi-Fi Protected Access & 802.1X) - Rosewill RNX-N4 User Manual

Wireless Adapter RNX-N4
• WPA Mode: Select the Auto WPA / WPA2 from the drop-down list.
• Cipher Type: Select TKIP and AES as the cipher suite. The encryption algorithm used
to secure the data communication. TKIP. Use TKIP only. TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity
Protocol) provides per-packet key generation and is based on WEP. AES. Use AES only.
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a very secure block based encryption. Note
that, if the bridge uses the AES option, the bridge can associate with the access point
only if the access point is also set to use only AES. TKIP and AES. The bridge
negotiates the cipher type with the access point, and uses AES when available.
• Group Key Update Interval: Specify the number of seconds before the group key
used for broadcast and multicast data is changed.
• Pre-Shared Key: The key is entered as a pass-phrase of up to 63 alphanumeric
characters in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) format at
both ends of the wireless connection. It cannot be shorter than eight characters,
although for proper security it needs to be of ample length and should not be a
commonly known phrase. This phrase is used to generate session keys that are unique
for each wireless client.
• Click on the Save Changes button to store these settings.
6.2.3.1.3 WPA ENTERPRISE (WI-FI PROTECTED ACCESS & 802.1X)
• Select the WPA-Enterprise radio button if your wireless network uses WPA encryption.
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security features of
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with existing Wi-Fi
products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved data encryption
through the Temporal Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the keys using a
hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity checking feature which makes sure that
keys haven't been tampered with.
• This option works with a RADIUS Server to authenticate wireless clients. Wireless
clients should have established the necessary credentials before attempting to
authenticate to the Server through this Gateway. Furthermore, it may be necessary to
configure the RADIUS Server to allow this Gateway to authenticate users.
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