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H3C Technologies H3C WX3000E Series Wireless Switches User Manual

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Cipher Suite

Encryption mechanisms supported by the wireless service, which can be:

AES-CCMP—Encryption mechanism based on the AES encryption algorithm.

TKIP—Encryption mechanism based on the RC4 algorithm and dynamic key

management.

AES-CCMP and TKIP—It indicates that you can select both CCMP and TKIP

encryption.

Security IE

Wireless service type (IE information carried in the beacon or probe response
frame):

WPA—Wi-Fi Protected Access.

RSN—An RSN is a security network that allows only the creation of robust

security network associations (RSNAs). It provides greater protection than WEP

and WPA.

WPA and RSN—It indicates that you can select both WPA and RSN..

Encryption

Provide Key
Automatically

Enable—A WEP key is dynamically assigned.

Disable—A static WEP key is used.

By default, a static WEP key is used.
When you enable this function, the WEP option is automatically set to wep104.

IMPORTANT:

This function must be used together with 802.1X authentication.

With dynamic WEP encryption configured, the WEP key used to encrypt unicast

frames is negotiated between client and server. If the WEP default key is

configured, the WEP default key is used to encrypt multicast frames. If not, the
device randomly generates a multicast WEP key.

WEP

wep40—Indicates the WEP40 key option.

wep104—Indicates the WEP104 key option.

wep128—Indicates the WEP128 key option.

Key ID

1—Key index 1.

2—Key index 2.

3—Key index 3.

4—Key index 4.

There are 4 static keys in WEP. The key index can be 1, 2, 3 or 4. The key
corresponding to the specified key index will be used for encrypting and

decrypting broadcast and multicast frames.

Key Length

Key length.

For wep40, the key is a string of 5 alphanumeric characters or a 10-digit

hexadecimal number.

For wep104, the key is a string of 13 alphanumeric characters or a 26-digit

hexadecimal number.

For wep128, the key is a string of 16 alphanumeric characters or a 32-digit

hexadecimal number.

WEP Key

Configure the WEP key.