BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2004-524 ENTRY:: November 09, 2004 ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science TITLE:: A Survey of WPA and 802.11i RSN Authentication Protocols TYPE:: Technical Report (paper) REVISION:: 1 AUTHOR:: Baek, Kwang-Hyun AUTHOR:: Smith, Sean W. AUTHOR:: Kotz, David DATE:: November 2004 RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email 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/TR2004-524.pdf 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. END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2004-524