Security Analysis for IEEE802.11

Author

Wang, Maocai ; Dai, Guangming ; Hu, Hanping ; Pen, Lei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., China Univ. of Geosci., Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The paper analyzes the security of IEEE 802.11. Based on the discussion of IEEE 802.11 security requirement, the three security technologies-SSID (Service Set Identifier), MAC(Media Access Control), WEP(Wired Equivalent Privacy) in WLAN standard IEEE802.11 are introduced, especially the encrypting algorithm and the integrity check algorithm in WEP. The security flaws caused by RC4 algorithm, key management, initialization vector Space, CRC algorithm and authentication mechanism in WEP are analyzed mainly in this paper. At the end of the paper, some advices and strategies to these flaws are given.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; cryptography; telecommunication network management; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; CRC algorithm; IEEE802.11; IEEE802.il standard; MAC; RC4 algorithm; WEP; WLAN; authentication mechanism; encrypting algorithm; initialization vector Space; integrity check algorithm; key management; media access control; security analysis; service set identifier; wired equivalent privacy; Access control; Algorithm design and analysis; Authentication; Cryptography; Cyclic redundancy check; Functional analysis; Privacy; Security; Space technology; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.728

Filename

4678636