On the Security of Three Versions of the WAI Protocol in Chinese WLAN Implementation Plan

Qiang Tang

2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

On the Security of Three Versions of the WAI Protocol in Chinese WLAN Implementation Plan

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469395,
    author={Qiang Tang},
    title={On the Security of Three Versions of the WAI Protocol in Chinese WLAN Implementation Plan},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2008},
    month={3},
    keywords={Access protocols  Communication system security  Cryptographic protocols  Message authentication  Modular construction  Moon  Privacy  Public key cryptography  Stress  Wireless LAN},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469395}
}

Qiang Tang
Year: 2008
On the Security of Three Versions of the WAI Protocol in Chinese WLAN Implementation Plan
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469395

Qiang Tang^1,2^,*

1: Royal Holloway, University of London,Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.
2: Departement d'Informatique, Ecole Normale Superieure, 45 Rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France

*Contact email: qiang.tang@rhul.ac.uk

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the security properties of three versions of the WAI protocol in Chinese WLAN implementation plan. We first revisit the security analysis that has been done to the version 1 and 2. we show that the security proof given by Li, Moon, and Ma is incorrect and the alternative protocol EWAP of Zhang and Ma is not secure. We further analyse the third version of the WAI protocol and prove its security in the Canetti-Krawczyk model. In addition, we also provide some practical security analysis of this version.

Keywords: Access protocols Communication system security Cryptographic protocols Message authentication Modular construction Moon Privacy Public key cryptography Stress Wireless LAN

Published: 2008-03-07
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-18

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469395