[GTER] MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks

[Felipe Louback]

MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks Protocol
can detect message tampering essential to these exploits

By John Cox <http://www.networkworld.com/Home/jcox.html>, Network World
August 24, 2011 05:35 PM ET



MIT researchers have devised a protocol to flummox man-in-the-middle attacks
against wireless
<http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html>networks. The
all-software solution lets wireless radios automatically pair
without the use of passwords and without relying on out-of-band techniques
such as infrared or video channels.

Dubbed Tamper-evident pairing, or TEP, the technique is based on
understanding how man-in-the-middle attacks tamper with wireless messages,
and then detects and in some cases blocks the tampering. The researchers
suggest that TEP could have detected the reported but still
unconfirmed cellular
man-in-the-middle
attack<http://www.extremetech.com/computing/92370-4g-and-cdma-reportedly-hacked-at-def-con>that
unfolded at the Defcon conference earlier this month in Las Vegas.



Full article at:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/082411-mit-tep-250077.html




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