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Optional MAC-Level Security Enhancements for Home WLANs

This proposal suggests incorporating optional MAC-level security features for home wireless networks to improve mutual authentication, encryption key management, and session security. By utilizing a combination of WEP2 encryption and Public Key Authentication, this scheme aims to enhance security without disrupting the standardization process.

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Optional MAC-Level Security Enhancements for Home WLANs

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  1. Optional MAC-LevelSecurity Enhancements for Home WLANsCarlos RiosLinCom Wireless Carlos Rios, LinCom Wireless

  2. TGeS to Date • Good solution proposed for Enterprise Security: • Mutual Authentication • Replay Protection • Session Keys • Key Management • Strong Encryption • The solution for the Home still relies on WEP • Manually generate and distribute common WEP key • Pain to regenerate and redistribute new keys • Keys WILL be forgotten • Stations can eavesdrop on each other Carlos Rios, LinCom Wireless

  3. An Idea • There is room for an optional 802.11MAC-level scheme that can readily provide • Mutual Authentication • Per Session Encryption Keys • Secure Encryption key generation and distribution • Support of WEP2 encryption ON TOP of the presently proposed 802.11eS structure Carlos Rios, LinCom Wireless

  4. That is not really new • Already have the 00/200 Intersil submission “Plug and Play Security in the Home and Small Business” • Use as an optional Authentication method in addition to Open and Shared Key • Simple Diffie-Helman multiple frame exchange • Simultaneous mutual authentication and session key generation • Use in concert with WEP2 encryption as now proposed Carlos Rios, LinCom Wireless

  5. General Details • Stations have unique, factory assigned Private keys, use to generate corresponding Public Keys • AP and Station are configured for “Public Key Authentication” • On first contact, APs, Stations learn each other’s MAC Address and Public Key pairs • Authentication consists of performing a Diffie-Helman exchange to securely mutually prove IDs AND generate a shared session WEP2 key • Key expiration and regeneration, redistribution can be handled similarly, or, more easily, by doing so directly while WEP2 encrypted with the initial key. Carlos Rios, LinCom Wireless

  6. Closing Remarks • An optional, previously presented MAC level scheme can add Home Wireless Network mutual authentication and session encryption key management to the 802.11eS proposal • Acknowledge that this is not an alternative to the Enterprise ESN proposal • Security provided is NOT strong enough for the Enterprise • It is certainly good enough for the home • This is TIMELY enough to not bog down the 802.11e standardization process Carlos Rios, LinCom Wireless

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