Well, you see some of the people working on improving 802.11 security,
in particular some members of 802.11 Task Group i noted that IEEE
procedures have no interoperability demonstration requirements. So they
formed a little group that took a subset of the then current 802.11i
draft and tried to
David Wagner said:
It's not clear to me if WPA products come with encryption turned on by
default. This is probably the #1 biggest source of vulnerabilities in
practice, far bigger than the weaknesses of WEP.
Maybe this is the case in the USA but from my own informal surveys in
Helsinki and
Reading the Wifi report, it seems their customers stampeded them and
demanded that the security hole be fixed, fixed a damned lot sooner
than they intended to fix it.
Which is sort of a shame, in a way. 802.11b has no pretense of media
layer security. I've been thinking of that as an opportunity
--
Reading the Wifi report,
http://www.weca.net/OpenSection/pdf/Wi-
Fi_Protected_Access_Overview.pdf
it seems their customers stampeded them and demanded that the
security hole be fixed, fixed a damned lot sooner than they
intended to fix it.
I am struck the contrast between the seemingly
James A. Donald[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Reading the Wifi report,
http://www.weca.net/OpenSection/pdf/Wi-
Fi_Protected_Access_Overview.pdf
it seems their customers stampeded them and demanded that the
security hole be fixed, fixed a damned lot sooner than they
intended to fix it.
At 03:32 PM 11/6/02 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Does anyone know details of the new proposed protocols?
Small article at:
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20021031S0007
Somewhere I read a larger article; things that
stuck in memory are: No AES, a cipher called Michael
being used; also, the
It uses:
-IEEE 802.1x for access control and authentication
-RC4 but with a new key mixing/generation method called TKIP that
provides for per packet keys and eliminates the Fluhrer et. al.
attack. Russ Housely, Doug Whitting, and Nils Ferguson designed TKIP.
-Michael is the MAC/MIC that
See the following two Intel links with detailed discussions of TKIP
and Michael which i found via Google:
Increasing Wireless Security with TKIP
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Mark Joseph Edwards
October 23,
