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802.11 Wireless Network Security

James D. Johns
Computer Science 630

Spring, 2005

History has shown that newer, cutting-edge technologies have been subject to an initial period of testing and debugging. Wireless network security is certainly no exception. The process of maintaining data integrity and prohibiting unauthorized access has proven to be problematic at best. While various companies have incorporated security algorithms into their products, the nature of wireless networking still provides relatively easy access to those networks. When vulnerabilities in the initial wireless security algorithms were discovered, those same companies pioneered efforts to enhance security. Unfortunately, those efforts have only recently been fully standardized.
Originally, wireless security consisted simply of filtering data transmission based on the MAC address of the client machine. This procedure was based on the theory that corporate IT departments are responsible for......

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