IP: RESEARCHERS CRACK NEW WIRELESS SECURITY SPEC

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Bill was a PhD student of Jon Smith and mine at UPenn djf


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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>


RESEARCHERS CRACK NEW WIRELESS SECURITY SPEC

Posted February 14, 2002 02:12 Pacific Time

A UNIVERSITY OF Maryland professor and his graduate
student have apparently uncovered serious weaknesses
in the next-generation Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)
security protocol known as 802.1x.

In a paper, "An Initial Security Analysis of the IEEE
802.1X Standard" funded by the National Institute of
Standards, Professor William Arbaugh and his graduate
assistant Arunesh Mishra outline two separate
scenarios that nullify the benefits of the new
standard and leave Wi-Fi networks wide open to attacks.

For the full story:
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/14/020214hnwifispec.xml?0215
fram>



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