User's Manual

Click the Encryption tab to define the encryption settings for a specific profile. It offers you various

options concerning the so-called WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) to maintain the secure

management in a wireless LAN environment. See the explanations below for more details, and

click Apply to activate the new settings. To leave the window, click OK. To undo the new settings,

select the Cancel button.

Note: Choosing the WEP Encryption command from the right-click menu of WLAN-54G USB

Configuration Tool tray icon will launch this tab too.

Figure 3.3-4: The Encryption Tab

Encryption (WEP security)

If you choose Disabled from the pull-down list, you will have the wireless LAN USB stick

communicated with all stations within the same networking community without any data

encryption. Otherwise, two encryption methods are offered: 64 bit and 128 bit which you may

select one which should be same as the AP or station you intend to connect with. Then, you can

define the identical WEP keys to make a communication with the chosen access point or station.

Create Keys Manually

Once you set the Encryption type as 64 bit or 128 bit, you may choose to edit WEP keys

manually or create them via the passphrase of your wireless network. If you choose the Create

Keys Manually option, you may directly enter up to 4 WEP keys for use in WEP encryption. To

generate the WEP keys, please define the key entry method as Alphanumeric or Hexadecimal

(for hexadecimal characters, only digits 0-9 and letters A-F are valid) in advance. Then edit the

texts in the blank fields below, from Key 1 to Key 4, as the encryption codes. Note that these

codes/keys shall be identical between the wireless nodes within same range and same access

point. Check the table below to find valid key length of each encryption type:

64 bit 128 bit

Alphanumeric

5 characters

13 characters

Hexadecimal

10 digits

26 digits