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Wireless Protocols
Protecting an Inherently Insecure Medium
R. K. Coleman
3e Technologies International, Inc.
Unencrypted
Communications
Ethernet Ethernet
Switch 7x 8x 9x 10x 11x 12x 7x 8x 9x 10x 11x 12x
Switch 7x 8x 9x 10x 11x 12x 7x 8x 9x 10x 11x 12x
Ethernet
Ethernet
C C
7 8 9 101112 7 8 9101112
A 123456 1x 2x 3x
A
4x 5x 6x 1x 2x 3x
B
4x 5x 6x A 1 2 34 5 6 1x 2x 3x
A
4x 5x 6x 1x 2x 3x
B
4x 5x 6x
3e-Wireless AP
3e-Wireless AP
3e-Wireless AP Wi-Fi
Phone
RFID
TabletPC
w/ Wi-Fi
MARS 32 20 1.00
ed
RC6 20 21 0.66
lin
Rijndael 10 8 0.98
am
or
Twofish 16 14 0.91
re
W
St
Serpent 32 17 1.04
H
IP PPP Networking IP
PPP PPP
Baseband Baseband
7
NSA Involvement in
Product Evaluation
High Type 1 Crypto
Robustness 6
for Classified
NSA Evaluated Product List
5
4+
Medium
Robustness 4
NIAP Certified FIPS 140-2
Level 4
CCTL Evaluations CMVP Validated
3 http://niap.nist.gov/cc- http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/
scheme/VPL-Vendor.html 140-1/1401val2003.htm
Level 3
Basic NIAP Labs CMVP Labs
Robustness
2 CygnaCom CygnaCom
Level 2
Booz Allen Atlan
Cable & Wireless EWA
1 CoACT CoACT
CSC Domus
Level 1
Infogard Infogard
SAIC