The Use of Wi-Fi Network Security Keys: Understanding the importance of wireless keys in securing Wi-Fi networks

Abstract

There are a few steps involved in configuring security on a Wi-Finetwork, the management of wireless keys turnsout to be the most important. These keys are digital passwords (sequences ofletters and/or digits, technically called a "string") that alldevices on a network need to know in order to connect with each other. Inparticular, all devices on a local Wi-Fi network share a common key.