Protection From Hacking WPA

I have written a lot on Home-WLAN about a WPA. Read about this kind of wireless encryption on What is WPA. My biggest recommendation is to use WPA instead of WEP. On the WEP vs WPA you can read about all advantages of the WPA and disadvantages of WEP. Some of you have heard something about cracked WPA and that WPA is not safe any more.

Here are some useful advices on how to protect your wireless network from WPA hacking. The secret of making your wireless network at home or office almost unbreakable is very simple. You only need to apply the following things on your wireless router or access point:

1) When you use WPA with the PSK authentication and TKIP encryption which is also called WPA Personal mode, please apply the following:
a) Shorten the timing of TKIP in your broadband wireless routers. Keys in your home wireless network should be refreshed in less than two minutes.
b) Never use pre-shared key word from the dictionary and the key which is short in length. Use instead 63 character password that is a combination of random characters and you should include at least 2 special symbols.

2) In enterprise environment do not use WPA with PSK authentication with TKIP encryption. Use WPA with AES (Advanced Encryption System) encryption or WPA2 Enterprise mode.

It is good to know that there are different kinds of software for wireless networks. This kind of applications can help you to protect your home wireless network. More about them read on The best WiFi software.

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