NIST Wireless / WiFi / WLAN Guidelines The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publications in the 800 series are documents of general interest to the computer security community. Below are Wireless / WiFi / WLAN focused publications. Number Date Title SP 800-153 Feb. 2012 Guidelines for Securing Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) [...]
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My Worst WiFi Related Idea Ever If you are starting a new blog, launching a company or releasing a product make sure to pick a short and easy to remember domain name. Sometime around December 2007 I had this “great” idea that people were too confused about the 802.11 standard and the alphabet soup of [...]
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802.11n For Dummies IEEE 802.11n-2009 is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11-2007 wireless networking standard to improve network throughput over the two previous standards — 802.11a and 802.11g — with a significant increase in the maximum raw data rate from 54 Mbit/s to 600 Mbit/s with the use of four spatial streams at a channel [...]
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Wireless N 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard Approved The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard. The IEEE today announced that its Standards Board has ratified the IEEE 802.11n™-2009 amendment, defining mechanisms that provide significantly improved data rates and ranges for wireless local area networks (WLANs). This new amendment to the IEEE 802.11 base [...]
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SSID A SSID (service set identifier) identifies the wireless network and the SSID for your wireless WLAN card must match the SSID for any access point that you want to connect with. If the value does not match, you are not granted access to the network. Each SSID can be up to 32 characters long [...]
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There are dozens of 802.11n products available, but until now, none were certified by Wi-Fi Alliance. This meant that to guarantee compatibility, purchasers of 802.11n wireless networking equipment had to use an access point and wireless lan card from the same vendor. In 2000 802.11b adoption took off fueled by low cost consumer grade equipment [...]
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IEEE 802.11 Standard Before diving in, a few terms related to WLANs need to be covered, ESS, PHY and MAC. My over simplistic definitions are below. Feel free to jump onto Google or Wikipedia to get more info. PHY – how the bits get into the air MAC – how devices/users get connected to wireless [...]
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