A vender neutral, evaluation of cots wireless LAN secure mobile solutions

Author

Knuth, Dean

Author_Institution

Adv. Commun. Group, Northrop Grumman Mission Syst., San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

377

Abstract

DOD issued DOD Directive 8100.2 to set standards for US Military uses of commercial wireless LAN´s for Sensitive but UNCLAS (SBU) applications in the DOD global information grid (GIG). A vendor neutral review of commercial wireless LAN hardware and software that is being used with military encryption products to provide wireless LAN radios to the US Military for high speed mobile communications shows that the most common solutions are IP-sec VPN tunneling (layer 3), or layer 2 encryption solutions which meet FIPS 140-2 information assurance requirements. An overview of two leading edge hardware and software solutions is provided to show conclusively that a layer 2 solution is far superior to IPSec in a wireless deployment.

Keywords

IP networks; cryptography; military communication; mobile communication; mobile computing; telecommunication security; virtual private networks; wireless LAN; IP-sec VPN tunneling; global information grid; high speed mobile communications; military encryption; secure mobile solutions; vender neutral; wireless LAN; Application software; Cryptography; Hardware; Military communication; Military standards; Mobile communication; Tunneling; US Department of Defense; Virtual private networks; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2004. MILCOM 2004. 2004 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8847-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2004.1493297

Filename

1493297