Wpa/Wpa2-Personal Security; Figure 56: Wpa Security - Alfa Network AIP-W505 User Manual

WPA/WPA2-
P S
ERSONAL ECURITY
For small home or office networks, WPA and WPA2 provide a simple
"personal" operating mode that uses a pre-shared key for network access.
This mode uses a common password phrase for user authentication that is
manually entered on an AP and all wireless clients.

Figure 56: WPA Security

The following items are displayed for WPA-personal security:
WPA Algorithms — Configure the encryption algorithm for WPA/
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WPA2-Personal security. The selection options are TKIP and AES.
TKIP — Use Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) keys for
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encryption. WPA specifies TKIP as the data encryption method to
replace WEP. TKIP avoids the problems of WEP static keys by
dynamically changing data encryption keys.
AES — Use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) keys for
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encryption. AES (AES-CCMP) provides extremely robust data
confidentiality using a 128-bit key and is specified as a standard
requirement for WPA2. Before implementing WPA2 in the network,
be sure client devices are upgraded to WPA2-compliant hardware.
Pass Phrase — The WPA pre-shared Key can be entered as an ASCII
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string (an easy-to-remember form of letters and numbers that can
include spaces) or Hexadecimal format. (Range: 8~63 ASCII
characters, or exactly 64 Hexadecimal digits)
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