Cisco DNCS System Release 2.8.1 3.8.1 4.3.1 User Guide

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shared key authentication
A type of authentication that assumes each station has received a secret shared key through a secure channel
independent from an 802.11 network. Stations authenticate through shared knowledge of the secret key. Use of
Shared Key authentication requires implementation of the 802.11 Wireless Equivalent Privacy algorithm.
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