METHOD AND APPARATUS TO INLINE ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION FOR A WIRELESS STATION

摘要

A method of wirelessly transmitting or receiving a packet of information, and an apparatus to wirelessly transmit or receive a packet of information. The case of receiving, the method includes streaming a data element, including at least some of the contents of the received packet, over a network link during receive time, including decrypting the data element during the streaming in real time after to the transfer over the network link. The transmitting and receiving is by a station (300) of a wireless network and the streaming is to or from the station from or to a network device (329) coupled to the station by the network link.