WPA-PSK
Wi-Fi Protected Access
with Pre-Shared Key, a special mode of WPA for users without an enterprise authentication
server. Instead, for authentication, a Pre-Shared Key is used. The PSK is a shared secret
(passphrase) that must be entered in both the AP or router and the WPA clients.
This
pre-shared key should be a random sequence of characters at least 20 characters long or
hexadecimal digits (numbers 0-9 and letters A-F) at least 24 hexadecimal digits long. After
the initial shared secret, the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) handles the encryption
and automatic re-keying.