Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 b have emerged as a new standard but still a lot of security issues remain. One of them issues is the authentication of a terminal to an access point (AP). The IEEE has released a secure architecture, IEEE 802.1 x, based on the extensible authentication protocol (EAP). Similarly at the ETSI, the 3GPP has studied EAP to be used with Universal SIM (USIM) modules. In this paper, we propose an authentication architecture where smartcards playa key role.
Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11b standard have spread very quickly over the past few years. Nevertheless a lot of security issues remain and stop its deployment in corporations. One of the most important issues is the authentication of a terminal to an Access Point. We propose an interface to integrate the Extensible Authentication Protocol into smartcards and will show that smartcards could constitute the de-facto device for authentication in Wireless LAN as they are for GSM and will be for
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