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Why WEP?

Apr 21,2010 by alperen

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You wireless LAN can defend against most forms of eavesdropping, but
the only way to prevent any hacker from compromising the integrity of
your transmitted information is to use encryption, and that is where
WEP comes in. WEP makes certain that most WLAN systems have a
sufficiently high level of privacy (that is analogous to that of wired networks)
by encrypting the radio transmissions. WEP also prevents any
unauthorized users from accessing your wireless network through the
means of strong authentication, which is not normally a part of the
802.11 standard but crucial to using WEP.
WEP also provides for access control through authentication, meaning
that most 802.11 wireless LAN products support WEP as one of
their core set of features.

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