DOS attack on WPA 802.11?

[Arnold G. Reinhold]

At 10:48 PM -0500 11/29/02, Donald Eastlake 3rd wrote:
>Arnold,
>
>If you want to play with this as in intellectual exercise, be my guest. 
>But the probability of changing the underlying IEEE 802.11i draft
>standard, which would take a 3/4 majority of the voting members of IEEE
>802.11, or of making the WiFi Alliance WPA profiling and subseting of
>802.11i incompatible with the standard, are close to zero.
>

Cryptographic standards should be judged on their merits, not on the 
bureaucratic difficulties in changing them. Specs have been amended 
before. Even NSA was willing to revise its original secure hash 
standard. That's why we have SHA1.  If I am right and WPA needlessly 
introduces a significant denial of service vulnerability, then it 
should be fixed. If I am wrong, no change is needed of course.

Check out the President's message for September 202 at the 
Association of Old Crows web site ("Serving the Electronic Warfare 
and Information Operations Community"): http://www.aochq.org/news.htm


Arnold Reinhold

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