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Wireless Home Security

Submitted by morrowbrdz on July 25, 2006

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Wireless Home Security


Wireless Home Security

With the advent of wireless technology and wireless home networks (WLAN), comes the trouble of protecting them from identity theft and viruses. Identity theft and computer viruses are a serious problem today in both wired and wireless networks. It is important to understand the types of methods that have been produced to provide wireless home network security.
What is Wireless home Security?
In order to protect the wireless home networks the "IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) created 802.11 or Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), which is a wireless networking standard to secure wireless networks (also known as Wi-Fi networks)." Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) was originally licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to illustrate the fundamental technology of wireless local area networks (WLAN), which is based on the IEEE 802.11 stipulation. WEP is a security protocol that provides a wireless LAN (WLAN) with a nominal level of security and privacy for comparable to a typical wired LAN. WEP encrypts data that is sent over the WLAN (WLAN uses radio frequencies to transmit data) to provide protection between the user and wireless access point or wireless router. The WEP protocol is considered vulnerable and is susceptible to hackers.
Because of the vulnerability of WEP, the IEEE created Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA or 802.11i) and WPA2, which is the enhanced version of WPA. The WPA protocol uses "dynamic keys, Extensible Authentication Protocol to secure network access, and an encryption method called Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP ensures that every data packet is sent with its own unique encryption key using a method called key mixing) to secure data transmissions," while WPA2 uses "Advanced Encryption Standard instead of TKIP. AES supports 128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit keys."

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