User Guide

High-Speed Wireless PC/104Plus Adapter Version: 1.0
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3.2.2.2.2 WPA
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security features
of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with
existing Wi-FI products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved
data encryption through the Temporal Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the
keys using a hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity-checking feature which
makes sure that keys haven’t been tampered with.
If your network uses WPA, select that radio button. You must then select an EAP
type from the drop-down list. The two options available are: TLS and PEAP. Each
one is described below.
3.2.2.2.2.1 WPA – TLS
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is an extension to the PPP protocol that
enables a variety of authentication protocols to be used. It passes through the
exchange of authentication messages, allowing the authentication software stored in
a server to interact with its counterpart in the client.
TLS (Transport Layer Security) is an IETF standardized authentication protocol that
uses PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificate-based authentication of both the client
and authentication server.
Select TLS from the drop-down list, and then click on the Configure button. The
Client Utility will then search your computer for any certificates. If you do not have
any certificates, you will see the following message, requiring you to select another
EAP option. Click on the OK button.