Tag Archives: security

Wireless (In)Security

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

In the beginning (around 1997-1999), 802.11′s security mechanisms include … suppressing the SSID broadcast (called “SSID hiding”), allowing only a white-list of MAC addresses, and WEP. SSID hiding is completely ineffective because the SSID is sent in plaintext anyhow in … Continue reading →

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Why is interdomain routing hard to get right?

Posted on November 13, 2010 by

BGP definitely is a headache. It has multiple security problems (see also RFC 4272). It may take a long time to converge (see [Griffin-Wilfong, 1999], [Labovitz et al., 2000]). It might suffer from route oscillation, one of whose solutions called route … Continue reading →

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