User's Manual

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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: Choosing the WEP Encryption command from the right-click menu of WLAN PRISM3 IEEE802.11b
tray icon will launch this tab too.
Figure 4.3-4: The Encryption Tab
Encr ypt ion ( W EP se curit y)
If you choose Disabled from the pull-down list, you will have the wireless LAN USB stick
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.
Cre at e Key M a nua lly
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 passphras e of your wireless network. If you choose the Create Key Manually
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 the table below to find valid
key length of each encryption type:
64 bit 12 8 bit
Alphanumeric
5 characters
13 characters
Hexadecimal 10 digits 26 digits