User's Manual

The Encryption Tab

Click the Encryption tab to define the encryption settings for a specific profile. It offers you various

options concerning the so-called WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) to maintain the secure

management in a wireless LAN environment. See the explanations below for more details, and

before making an activation of any new settings, click Apply. To leave the window, click OK. To

undo the new settings, select the Cancel button.

Note: Choose the WEP Encryption command from the right-click menu of PRISM Configuration Utility

tray icon will launch this tab too.

Figure 3.3-4: The Encryption Tab

Encryption (WEP security)

If you choose Disabled from the pull-down list, you will have the wireless LAN PCMCIA card

communicated with all stations within the same networking community without any data

encryption. Otherwise, two key lengths are offered: 64 bit and 128 bit. Specify a preferred one

from the two, so that you may use the identical WEP key to make a communication with the

chosen access point.

Create Key Manual

Once you set the Encryption type as 64 bit or 128 bit, you may choose to edit WEP keys

manually or create them via the passphrase of your wireless network. If you choose the Create

Key Manual option, you may directly enter up to 4 WEP keys for use in WEP encryption. To

generate the WEP keys, please define the key entry method as Alphanumeric or Hexadecimal

(for hexadecimal characters, only digits 0-9 and letters A-F are valid). Then edit the texts in the

blank fields below, from Key 1 to Key 4, as the encryption codes. Note that these codes/keys

shall be identical between the wireless nodes within the range and the access point only. Check