The Dangers of Mitigating Security Design Flaws: A Wireless Case Study

  • Authors:
  • Nick L. Petroni Jr.;William A. Arbaugh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Mitigating design flaws often provides the only means to pro0tect legacy equipment, particularly in wireless local area networks. A synchronous active attack against the wired equivalent privacy protocol demonstrates how mitigating one flaw or attack can facilitate another.