Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing

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6.3 Wireless LAN Security*

Because more cell phones and smart phones are being equipped with

Wi-Fi interfaces, related security problems of IEEE 802.11 wireless

LANs have become a hot topic, especially after numerous serious

vulnerabilities of wired equivalent privacy (WEP), the security mech-

anism of 802.11, were discovered. Understandably, when the 802.11

wireless LAN standard was developed, security was apparently not a

top priority. The “wired equivalence” design rationale essentially led

to some earlier versions of wireless LAN security solutions that clearly

failed to deliver security functions ...