Encryption is the mechanism that you use to keep your wireless network private. What is encryption? Did you ever want to send someone a secret message?

Two new encryption efforts have emerged from the firestorm of complaints over the easily compromised short and static keys used in 802.11’s original security standard, the Wi-Fi Equivalent ...

In a recent column, I suggested that a consumer worried about Internet banking over a home Wi-Fi network could use a wired Internet connection that would be safer. But several readers asked ...

What is the point of an implementation like this? Why support WEP data encryption but not support authentication based on the [same] WEP key? Is there any reason to set up a network this way?

The Certicom encryption would be built into game-agent software that will be able to connect to host devices to authenticate the games using digital-signature technology and public-key certificates.