Configure 802.1X And Wpa; What Is Wpa Functionality - ZyXEL Communications P-660R-T1 Support Notes

P-660 series Support Notes

7. Configure 802.1x and WPA

What is the WPA Functionality?
Configuration for Access Point
C onfiguration for your PC
Wh at is WPA Functionality?
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a subs et of the IEEE 802.11i security specification
draft. Key differences between WAP and WEP are user authentication and improved
data encryption WAP applies IEEE 802.1x Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
to authenticate wireless clients using an external RADIUS database. You can not use
the 662's local user database for WPA authentication purpose since the local user
database uses MD5 EAP which can not to generate keys.
WPA improves data encryption by usi ng Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP),
Message Integrity Check and IEEE 802. . Temporal Key Integrity Protocol uses 1x
128-bits keys that are dynamically generate d and distributed by the authentication
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