The dangers of mitigating security design flaws: a wireless case study

1 January 2003

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Security & Privacy

Vol. 1 (1) , 28-36
https://doi.org/10.1109/msecp.2003.1176993

Abstract

Mitigating design flaws often provides the only means to protect legacy equipment, particularly in wireless local area networks. A synchronous active attack against the wired equivalent privacy protocol demonstrates how mitigating one flaw or attack can facilitate another.

Keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY
DICTIONARIES
PROTECTION
PROTOCOLS
COMPUTER SECURITY
PRIVACY
TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SECURITY
WIRELESS LAN
WIRELESS NETWORKS

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