Carmine DeFazio
CS898t - Wireless/Mobile Communications
Dr. Chang
Research Paper Project Proposal

TOPIC: 
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An Overview of Wireless Security

MAJOR GOALS:
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* A historical outline of wireless security.
  1. Its' past and its basis.
  2. Its' present and its basis.
  3. Its' possible future.
* The protocols and technology behind wireless security.
  1. Their strengths and weaknesses.
  2. Current and past security concerns and what has been already addressed.
  3. The trends in current research for security improvement.
* Consumer and business demands.
  1. Expectations about security.
  2. Concerns and fears about security holes.
  2. Technological, societal, and economic effects of security failures.
* Developments in the field of wireless security.
  1. What they are.
  2. What problems they solve.
  3. What still needs to be fixed.
* Steps that can be taken to improve wireless security.


SCOPE:
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	This paper will be an overview of wireless security.  Its' technologies
and protocols(past, present, and future) will be examined giving an explanation
of each of their strengths and weaknesses.  An account of how these strengths
and weaknesses have affected society, business, and wireless computing
technology will be put forth.  Giving details on how past weaknesses brought
about new protocols and technologies used today and how they are driving current
research trends to address new security problems, possible security problems,
and future fears.  A discussion of how wireless and mobile users can improve
security themselves with the current protocols and technologies will also be put
forth. 
	Wireless security is a very important and priority one area of research.
All who use or make the technology should be knowledgable of the concepts behind
the scenes to some degree.  This will lead to greater innovation in the field
and possibly stave off any future personal or societal disasters caused by lack
security.


REFERENCES:
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William A. Arbaugh, Narendar Shankar, Y.C. Justing Wan
"Your 802.11 Wireless Network Has no Clothes"
2001
<http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.pdf>

Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, David Wagner
"Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11"
2001
<http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/mobicom.pdf>

Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin, Adi Shamir
"Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4"
2001
<http://downloads.securityfocus.com/library/rc4_ksaproc.pdf>

Matthew Gast
"Wireless LAN Security: A Short History"
2002 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/04/19/security.html>

Trey "Azariah" Dismukes
"Wireless Security Blackpaper"
7/2002
<http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/w/wireless/security-1.html>

Ken "Caesar" Fisher
"Security Practicum: Essential Home Wireless Security Practices"
http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/w/wireless-security-howto/home-802.11b-1.html>

The Unofficial 802.11 Security Web Page
<http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IEEE/>

Wireless Security Perspectives
A Technical Bulletin on Authentication, Voice & Data Encryption and other Wireless Security
Issues
<http://www.cnp-wireless.com/wsp.html>

Wireless Research
<http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.html>