A Survey of WPA and 802.11i RSN Authentication Protocols

Dartmouth Technical Report TR2004-524

	Kwang-Hyun Baek
	Sean W. Smith
	David Kotz

Date: November 2004

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2004-524.pdf> (416KB)

Abstract:
 In the new standards for WLAN security, many choices exist for the authentication process.  In this paper, we list eight desired properties of WLAN authentication protocols, survey eight recent authentication protocols, and analyze the protocols according to the desired properties.