from the dept. The 802.11 standard for wireless networks includes a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, used to protect linklayer communications from eavesdropping and other attacks. The authors discovered several serious security flaws in the protocol, stemming from misapplication of cryptographic primitives. The flaws lead to a number of practical attacks that demonstrate that WEP fails to achieve its security goals. In this paper, the authors discuss in detail each of the flaws, the underlying security principle violations, and the ensuing attacks. The paper is avaliable here < | >
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