Enhancing WLAN Security by Introducing EAP-TLS Smartcards

Various researches have proposed multiple protocols within 802.11 security to protect and authenticate access to wireless LAN. This paper presents the first implementation of EAP-TLS protocol in smartcards. It introduces also the Pre-SharedKey protocol (PSK), a lightweight identity authentication for access control and key calculation and distribution within WLAN security. The performance and the efficiency of EAP-PSK and of EAP-TLS protocols is analyzed and compared. This in fact will demonstrate the enhancement EAP-TLS protocol provides. The implementation and performance were performed using smartcards and Java Card technologies. KEYWORDS 802.11 Wireless LAN, EAP, TLS, Smartcards, Security.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IADIS
• Authors: Mohamad Badra, Pascal Urien
• Keywords: Eap-tls Protocol, IADIS 2004, IADIS 2008, Lightweight Identity Authentication, Wireless Lan