M. Iliopoulos and Th. Antonakopoulos:

Hardware implementation of the Wired LAN Equivalent Privacy in 802.11 Wireless LANs

Computers and Computational Engineering in Control, World Scientific, 1999, pp. 297-302. (ISBN: 960-8052-12-2).

Also presented in the 3rd IMACS-IEEE International Multi-conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers - CSCC’99, Athens, Greece, July 1999.

Abstract: As wireless LANs become more and more popular, data confidentiality is getting more and more critical. The IEEE802.11 standard for Wireless LANs (WLANs), which is a very significant milestone in the development of the wireless technology, embodies a ciphering/deciphering algorithm to offer wired LAN equivalent privacy to 802.11 LAN users. The ciphering/deciphering algorithm used in the IEEE802.11 standard is based on the RC4 pseudo-random generator algorithm developed by RSA Data Security Inc. This paper presents a hardware implementation of this ciphering/deciphering algorithm and describes how this implementation is integrated in the IEEE802.11 MAC logic.

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