If you have a wireless network you should turn on encryption.
Why, because some perve may be using your network to download or upload stuff that is not very nice and if its traced you’ll have to answer a few questions.
Now of course it all starts getting confusing because there are so many different types. Below are just a few popular ones, but don’t worry, here is my advice. Don’t use WEP its now outdated and some modern gear can’t use it. Use WPA2, nearly everything can use it and its good enough.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)—The old, original, now discredited wireless security standard. Easily cracked.
WEP 40/128-bit key, WEP 128-bit Passphrase—See WEP. The user key for WEP is generally either 40- or 128-bit, and generally has to be supplied as a hexadecimal string.
WPA, WPA1—Wi-Fi Protected Access. The initial version of WPA, sometimes called WPA1, is essentially a brand name for TKIP. TKIP was chosen as an interim standard because it could be implemented on WEP hardware with just a firmware upgrade.
WPA2—The trade name for an implementation of the 802.11i standard, including AES and CCMP.
TKIP—Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. The replacement encryption system for WEP. Several features were added to make keys more secure than they were under WEP.
AES—Advanced Encryption Standard. This is now the preferred encryption method, replacing the old TKIP. AES is implemented in WPA2/802.11i.
WPA-PSK, WPA-Preshared Key—Use of a shared key, meaning one manually set and manually managed. Does not scale with a large network either for manageability or security, but needs no external key management system.
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