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Glossary
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Category
Item
AD_HOC
INFRASTRUCTURE
(infrastructure mode)
SSID
Open System/
OPEN
Shared Key/
SHARED
Advanced
setting of
WPA-PSK
connection
WEP
TKIP
AES
This is the mode in which computers communicate with each other
directly, rather than via access points.
This is the mode in which communications are performed via the
access point.
Abbreviation for Service Set ID. The SSID identification code must
be set to distinguish equipment included in a wireless LAN that uses
access points from equipment not included in that LAN.
This may appear as the "ESSID" or the "network name" for wireless
LAN cards made by some manufacturers.
This is an authentication of wireless signals employing a public key
encryptosystem.
This is a secret key encryptosystem for wireless signals in which
authentication is performed with a key pre-set in the WEP.
Other terms for this method, in which the same key is used for both
encryption and decryption, are "shared key encryptosystem" and
"common key encryptosystem".
This is a standard covering encryption methods used in wireless LAN.
It provides greater security than WEP, and has functions such as a
user authentication function and also TKIP (encryption protocol) which
automatically changes the encryption key at fixed intervals.
And this authentication requires no authentication server.
Abbreviation for Wired Equivalent Privacy. This is a method for
encrypting communication data. The encryption key is created and
notified only to the communicating user, so the communication data
cannot be decrypted by a third party.
Abbreviation for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.
This encryption protocol provides even greater security than WEP
because it changes the encryption key at fixed intervals.
These are the US Government's next-generation standard encryption
methods, the selection work of which is performed by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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