Sony SVE14A390S User Manual

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Protected Access (WPA). Proposed jointly by the IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance, both

WPA2 and WPA are specifications of standards based on interoperable security

enhancements that increase the level of data protection and access control for

existing Wi-Fi networks. WPA is designed to be forward compatible with the

IEEE 802.11i specification. It utilizes the enhanced data encryption Temporal

Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) in addition to user authentication using 802.1X

and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). Data encryption protects the

vulnerable wireless link between clients and access points. Besides that, there

are other typical LAN security mechanisms to ensure privacy, such as:

password protection, end-to-end encryption, virtual private networks, and

authentication. WPA2, the second generation of WPA, provides stronger data

protection and network access control and is also designed to secure all

versions of 802.11 devices, including 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n

standards, multi-band and multi-mode. In addition, based on the ratified IEEE

802.11i standard, WPA2 provides government grade security by implementing

the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FIPS 140-2 compliant

AES encryption algorithm and 802.1X-based authentication. WPA2 is backward

compatible with WPA.

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