A new paper by a leading security expert says that the new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security standard may be less secure in certain scenarios than WEP, the wireless standard it was designed to ...

New wireless security standard could drive hot spot, academic installations. The wireless LAN industry’s first crack at security – 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy ...

I recently bought a Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b access point. It does not appear to support shared key authentication, although it does support 40-bit and 128-bit WEP for data encryption. So, whether ...

Q: An option in our access point interface calls for the configuration of four WEP keys. Why would you need four instead of one? Is it in order to share the encryption/decryption load across clients?

Within months, federal agencies will reap the rewards of the growing wireless local-area network (WLAN) market, as major government contracts begin offering a new class of wireless network gear ...