User`s manual

11a/b/g Wireless Multi-Client Bridge/AP/WDS Version 1.0
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3.3.4.1.2 WPA – Personal (Wi-Fi Protected Access)
 Select the WPA-Personal 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.
 WPA Mode: Select the WPA from the drop-down list.
 Cipher Type: Select TKIP or 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.
 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 Settings button once you have modified the settings.