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Section 7 summarizes and draws conclusions.

Section 6 is about problems being addressed by standards bodies and their likely fixes.

Section 5 covers 802.1x-based RADIUS server authentication.

Section 4 describes the access control tools used with wireless LANs today.

Section 3 covers risks associated with current wireless LAN services.

Section 2 describes the basic wireless infrastructure and defines terms.

The paper also describes how we expect wireless services to evolve with the revised standard. This paper describes the current state of access control with existing 802.11 devices, our understanding of the ways the standards will change, and highlights some of the issues that are in the process of being resolved. The revised WLAN standards, properly deployed, will make authenticated wireless networking a safe computing environment. The initial WEP algorithm has been shone to be relatively easy to break. This is to replace Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).

Per-packet authentication (message integrity) and encryption technology.

Work on EAP and 802.1x RADIUS is being done in the EAP working group of IETF and the 802.1 task group of IEEE to deal with issues raised by deployment of 802.11 LANs. This leverages off of work done in the IETF, most notably the RADIUS server and its Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).

Device (STA) authentication via 802.1x and remote RADIUS server.

This paper focuses on two areas of the standards.

Currently, work in the IEEE is addressing several areas having to do with access authentication for 802.11 wireless networks. Later versions of the standard have added the use of 802.1x RADIUS Server for authenticating users and a mechanism for creating “dynamic” session keys. WEP requires a shared key to protect messages, and the original standard assumed that these keys would be configured in the devices.

The original 802.11 standard included support for “Wired Equivalent Privacy” to protect messages going over the air. IEEE 802.11 is the wireless LAN Standard. This paper looks at 802.11 security issues, the existing and proposed technologies, and scenarios for use. The 802.11 standard has specified the use of 802.1x RADIUS Server authentication mechanisms for authenticating user access to the LAN. The intent of these standards is to provide a wireless Ethernet capability. The IEEE 802.11 group has defined standards for WiFi including both radio standards and networking protocol standards. Wireless networking, more than any other networking technology, needs an authentication and access control mechanism to ensure security. There is no physical method to restrict a system in radio range to be a member of a wireless network. There is no wiring to define membership in a network. It presents a set of unique issues based on the fact that the only limit to a wireless network is the radio signal strength. Wireless (WiFi) is emerging as a significant aspect of networking. WLAN Access Control and RADIUS Server Authentication