BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2004-484
ENTRY:: January 07, 2004
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Greenpass: Flexible and Scalable Authorization for Wireless Networks
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Smith, Sean
AUTHOR:: Goffee, Nicholas C.
AUTHOR:: Kim, Sung Hoon
AUTHOR:: Taylor, Punch
AUTHOR:: Zhao, Meiyuan
AUTHOR:: Marchesini, John
DATE:: January 2004
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2004-484.pdf
ABSTRACT:: 
Wireless networks break the implicit assumptions that supported
authorization in wired networks (that is: if one could connect, then
one must be authorized).  However, ensuring that only authorized users
can access a campus-wide wireless network creates many challenges: we
must permit authorized guests to access the same network resources
that internal users do; we must accommodate the de-centralized way
that authority flows in real universities; we also must work within
standards, and accommodate the laptops and systems that users already
have, without requiring additional software or plug-ins.
  This paper describes our ongoing project to address this problem,
using SPKI/SDSI delegation on top of X.509 keypair within EAP-TLS.
Within the ``living laboratory'' of Dartmouth's wireless network, this
project lets us solve real problem with wireless networking, while
also experimenting with trust flows and testing the limits of current
tools.
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END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2004-484