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By Bradley Mitchell, About.com Guide to Wireless / Networking since 1999

What Is WEP?

Sunday July 30, 2006
| Definition | WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. It's not easy to tell by the name, but WEP is a standard technology used for data encryption on wireless networks. To use WEP on your wireless home networking equipment, you must set up a WEP key on each device.
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