%T A Survey of WPA and 802.11i RSN Authentication Protocols %A Kwang-Hyun Baek %A Sean W. Smith %A David Kotz %R Technical Report TR2004-524 %I Dartmouth College, Computer Science %C Hanover, NH %D November 2004 %U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2004-524.pdf %X 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.