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DESIGN AND HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NOVEL SCRAMBLING SECURITY ALGORITHM FOR ROBUST WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

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Date Issued:
2004
Abstract/Description:
The IEEE802.11 standard for wireless networks includes a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, which is a popular wireless secure communication stream cipher protocol approach to network security used to protect link-layer communications from eavesdropping and other attacks. It allows user to communicate with the user; sharing the public key over a network. It provides authentication and encrypted communications over unsecured channels. However, WEP protocol has an inherent security flaw. It is vulnerable to the various attacks, various experiments has proved that WEP fails to achieve its security goals. This thesis entails designing, evaluating and prototyping a wireless security infrastructure that can be used with the WEP protocol optionally, thus reducing the security vulnerabilities. We have studied the flaws of WEP and the reasons for their occurrence, and we provide the design and implementation of a novel scheme in Matlab and VHDL to improve the security of WEP in all aspects by a degree of 1000. The architecture was designed with a consideration for least increment in hardware, thus achieving power and cost efficiency. It also provides flexibility for optional implementation with the available technology by being able to be bypassed by the technology, which allows for non-replacement of existing hardware, common on both, the WEP and the proposed protocols, on the fly.
Title: DESIGN AND HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NOVEL SCRAMBLING SECURITY ALGORITHM FOR ROBUST WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.
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Name(s): Jagetia, Mohit, Author
Kocak, Taskin, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2004
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: The IEEE802.11 standard for wireless networks includes a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, which is a popular wireless secure communication stream cipher protocol approach to network security used to protect link-layer communications from eavesdropping and other attacks. It allows user to communicate with the user; sharing the public key over a network. It provides authentication and encrypted communications over unsecured channels. However, WEP protocol has an inherent security flaw. It is vulnerable to the various attacks, various experiments has proved that WEP fails to achieve its security goals. This thesis entails designing, evaluating and prototyping a wireless security infrastructure that can be used with the WEP protocol optionally, thus reducing the security vulnerabilities. We have studied the flaws of WEP and the reasons for their occurrence, and we provide the design and implementation of a novel scheme in Matlab and VHDL to improve the security of WEP in all aspects by a degree of 1000. The architecture was designed with a consideration for least increment in hardware, thus achieving power and cost efficiency. It also provides flexibility for optional implementation with the available technology by being able to be bypassed by the technology, which allows for non-replacement of existing hardware, common on both, the WEP and the proposed protocols, on the fly.
Identifier: CFE0000062 (IID), ucf:46079 (fedora)
Note(s): 2004-05-01
M.S.Cp.E.
College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s): security
scrambling
interpolation
wireless
cryptography
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000062
Restrictions on Access: public
Host Institution: UCF

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