User's Manual

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Ver.2.0
with the use of the optional Pre‐Shared Key (PSK) authentication, which
was designed for home users without an enterprise authentication server.
To encrypt a network with WPA2‐PSK you provide your router not with an
encryption key, but rather with a plain‐English passphrase between 8 and 63
characters long.
Using a technology called TKIP (for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol), that
passphrase, along with the network SSID, is used to generate unique
encryption keys for each wireless client. And those encryption keys are
constantly changed. Although WEP
also supports passphrases, it does so only as a way to more easily create
static keys, which are usually comprised of the hex characters 0‐9 and A‐F.
WPA Algorithms
TKIP
TKIP stands for “Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.” It was a stopgap encryption
protocol introduced with WPA to replace the very‐insecure WEP encryption at
the time. TKIP is actually quite similar to WEP encryption.
AES
AES stands for “Advanced Encryption Standard.” This was a more secure
encryption protocol introduced with WPA2, which replaced the interim WPA
standard.
TKIPAES
When you set your router to use WPA2, you usually have the option to use
AES, or TKIP+AES. When your device is set to "WPA2 with TKIP+AES" it
means that network devices that can use WPA2 will connect with WPA2, and
network devices that can only use WPA will connect with WPA.