Broadcom became one of the best wi-Fi chip maker and is in the way of creating a software that will make setting up a secure WLANs very easy to do. The software provides a simple way wizard that configures both the access point and the PC client using the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) TKIP security system. Users setting up a WLAN for the first time are asked to provide the answers to two easy questions. These answers will be used to create the authentication and data encryption keys, and the access point's unique SSID, details of which are provided to the user. When other clients are added to the WLAN, the software will asks for the information will validate him before configuring the client-side settings.In order to ensure that the correct access point is configured, the software will only connect to access points that have been operational for less than an hour. The system requires both access point and client adaptor contain one of Broadcom's 54g-branded 802.11g chipsets. Broadcom also produce 802.11g chipsets to Linksys, Buffalo, Belkin, Motorola, Apple, Acer, Dell, HP, Gateway and others.
Since the beginning, the Wi-Fi Alliance, the standard's interoperability and marketing body, has insisted that all WPA-certified devices ship with full security settings in place. They used to turne security off by default because of the difficulty many users had in setting up secure networks. This, in turn, helped Wi-Fi develop a reputation for being easy to penetrate. WPA certainly improves WLAN security over the older Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) specification, but even WPA is useless if it's not enabled.
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theregister.co.uk
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