Managing personal WEP keys
Personal Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) keys are used for authenticating the user
in a WLAN. Personal keys are usually created by the system administrator, who can
store them on SIM cards and then distribute them to the users. Personal keys can
also be saved to a file. Since personal keys are not network specific, they cannot be
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saved together with profiles. They can, however, be saved to a file and used
independently from profiles.
Personal WEP keys can be used only with the infrastructure operating mode,
provided that the WLAN access point supports the keys. Ad hoc networks use
shared WEP keys only.
See “Creating and editing personal WEP keys” on page 44 for more information.