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To help protect you from identity theft and protect the campus network from unauthorized access, encryption prevents usernames, passwords, and data from being obtained “in the air” (i.e., to and from your computer and the access point) by intruders. WPA improves upon Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP, a weaker encryption standard).
