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A Key Hiding Communication Scheme for Enhancing the Wireless LAN Security

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Authentication per frame and symmetric key based encryption is an implicit necessity for security in Wireless Local Area Networks (LANs). We propose a novel symmetric key based secure WLAN communication scheme. The scheme provides authentication per frame, generates new secret key for encryption of each frame and involves less message exchanges for maintaining the freshness of key and initial vector (IV). It enhances wireless security by utilizing key hiding concept for sharing the symmetric secret key and IV. The shared secret encryption key and IV are protected using counters and then mixed with each other before sending. We prove security of the scheme in Canetti–Krawczyk model.

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    Rajeev Singh

  2. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, HP, India

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Singh, R., Sharma, T.P. A Key Hiding Communication Scheme for Enhancing the Wireless LAN Security. Wireless Pers Commun 77, 1145–1165 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1559-0

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