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 Chapter 3 Wireless LANs
N220 User’s Guide
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For EAP-TLS authentication type, you must first have a wired connection to the 
network and obtain the certificate(s) from a certificate authority (CA). Certificates 
(also called digital IDs) can be used to authenticate users and a CA issues 
certificates and guarantees the identity of each certificate owner.
3.3.1.3  WPA and WPA2 
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a subset of the IEEE 802.11i standard. WPA2 
(IEEE 802.11i) is a wireless security standard that defines stronger encryption, 
authentication and key management than WPA. 
Key differences between WPA(2) and WEP are improved data encryption and user 
authentication.
Both WPA and WPA2 improve data encryption by using Temporal Key Integrity 
Protocol (TKIP), Message Integrity Check (MIC) and IEEE 802.1x. WPA and WPA2 
use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in the Counter mode with Cipher block 
chaining Message authentication code Protocol (CCMP) to offer stronger 
encryption than TKIP.
If both an AP and the wireless clients support WPA2 and you have an external 
RADIUS server, use WPA2 for stronger data encryption. If you don't have an 
external RADIUS server, you should use WPA2-PSK (WPA2-Pre-Shared Key) that 
only requires a single (identical) password entered into each access point, wireless 
gateway and wireless client. As long as the passwords match, a wireless client will 
be granted access to a WLAN. 
If the AP or the wireless clients do not support WPA2, just use WPA or WPA-PSK 
depending on whether you have an external RADIUS server or not.
Select WEP only when the AP and/or wireless clients do not support WPA or WPA2. 
WEP is less secure than WPA or WPA2.
3.4  WiFi Protected Setup
Your N220 supports WiFi Protected Setup (WPS), which is an easy way to set up a 
secure wireless network. WPS is an industry standard specification, defined by the 
WiFi Alliance.
WPS allows you to quickly set up a wireless network with strong security, without 
having to configure security settings manually. Each WPS connection works 
between two devices. Both devices must support WPS (check each device’s 
documentation to make sure).