AMIMA – A SOFTWARE SOLUTION FOR SECURITY IN WLAN

Abstract

Wireless local area networks have become more and more popular. They had been installed by businesses of all types. The IEEE 802.11 standards were developed for WLAN. However, sources have shown that even the new standards are flawed, allowing attackers to perpetrate attacks. Our works focus on man-in-the-middle attacks, a type of attacks that can be used to steal passwords and to disrupt key exchange operations. This paper presents a software solution – called AMIMA (Against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks), to defend against this type of attacks. In this solution, the “delayed password disclosure” technique is used for authentication phase, IPSec and VPN technique will be used for data exchange phase.