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Wireless Security

AJ Mancini IV Paul Schiffgens Jack O’Hara. Wireless Security. WIRELESS SECURITY. Brief history of Wi-Fi Wireless encryption standards WEP/WPA The problem with WEP WPA/WPA2 Recommend use of WPA on home networks. WIRELESS SECURITY. First wireless local area network (WLAN) ALOHAnet

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Wireless Security

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  1. AJ Mancini IV Paul Schiffgens Jack O’Hara Wireless Security

  2. WIRELESS SECURITY • Brief history of Wi-Fi • Wireless encryption standards • WEP/WPA • The problem with WEP • WPA/WPA2 • Recommend use of WPA on home networks

  3. WIRELESS SECURITY • First wireless local area network (WLAN) • ALOHAnet • University of Hawaii – 1970 • Norman Abramson • Seven Computers, Four Islands • More publications to IEEE • ~ 1980 • Including infrared and CDMA

  4. WIRELESS SECURITY • 802.11 Committee • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) • IEEE 802.11-1997 – First Industry Standard • Followed by 802.11a/b/g

  5. WIRELESS SECURITY • WEP • Wired Equivalent Privacy • Part of original 802.11 standard • Deprecated in 2004 • Still included in standard

  6. WIRELESS SECURITY • Problems with WEP • 40-bit or 104-bit key with 24-bit Initialization Vector (IV) • Government restriction on cryptography • WEP uses an RC4 stream cipher • Paramount that the same IV never be used twice • Problem: 50% chance that an IV will repeat after 5000 packets

  7. WIRELESS SECURITY • Published attacks on WEP encryption • Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin, Adi Shamir published crpytanalysis of RC4 • aircrack-ng – crack any WEP key in minutes, regardless of size or complexity

  8. WIRELESS SECURITY • Published attacks on WEP encryption • 2005 – FBI demonstration • Andreas Klein expands on previous work, exposing more weaknesses in the RC4 cipher.

  9. WIRELESS SECURITY • Published attacks on WEP encryption • Erik Tews, Andrei Pychkine, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann extend Klein’s work and apply RC4 weaknesses to WEP key recovery , develop new attack • 104-bit key • 40,000 packets – 50% recovery • 60,000 packets – 80% recovery • 85,000 packets – 95% recovery • Using packet injection, 40k packets can be generated in under 1 minute

  10. WIRELESS SECURITY • Problems with WEP identified • WEP deprecated in 2004 • 802.11i – Standard introduced Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) • Problem: • WEP is still included for compatibility with older equipment, is often the default form of security on consumer-level wireless equipment • Further problem: most equipment comes without any form of security enabled by default

  11. WIRELESS SECURITY • WPA2 • Can utilize Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption • Government-qualified for Top Secret • Cipher has no known vulnerabilities • Only successful exploits are cross-channel attacks • Attacks made against implementation, not cipher • Disadvantage – requires hardware support

  12. WIRELESS SECURITY • Recap • WEP 64/128 – 24 bit IV + 40/104 bit key • IVs must be unique – vulnerability • 5000 IVs before repeat • WPA2 w/ AES • Top Secret-grade encryption • No vulnerabilities in the cipher • Authenticated and Encrypted

  13. WIRELESS SECURITY • Recommend immediate adoption of WPA2 over WEP, unsecured networks

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