Security Development

Wi-Fi security protocols used in Wi-Fi Alliance certified products are now open to industry review: 

  1. IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications," IEEE Std 802.11-2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9363693
  2. IEEE Draft Standard for Information technology -- Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks -- Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, REVme/D5.0, Feb. 2024, https://www.techstreet.com/ieee/standards/ieee-p802-11?product_id=2566260
  3. IEEE 802.1X:  IEEE Std 802.1X™-2020, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Port-Based Network Access Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., February 2020, https://www.techstreet.com/ieee/standards/ieee-802-1x-2020?product_id=20...  
  4. IETF RFC 5216: The EAP-TLS Authentication Protocol, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5216
  5. IETF RFC 9190:  Using the Extensible Authentication Protocol with TLS 1.3, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9190
  6. IETF RFC 9325: Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS), https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9325
  7. IETF RFC 6460: Suite B Profile for Transport Layer Security (TLS), https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5216  
  8. IETF RFC 7268: RADIUS Attributes for IEEE 802 Networks, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7268   
  9. IETF RFC 5289: TLS Elliptic Curve Cipher Suites with SHA-256/384 and AES GCM, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5289
  10. IETF RFC 5288: AES Galois Counter Mode (GCM) Cipher Suites for TLS, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5288
  11. IETF RFC 8110: Opportunistic Wireless Encryption, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8110
  12. WPA3 Specification, https://www.wi-fi.org/file/wpa3-specification
  13. Opportunistic Wireless Encryption Specification, https://www.wi-fi.org/file/opportunistic-wireless-encryption-specification
  14. Wi-Fi Easy Connect Specification, https://www.wi-fi.org/file/wi-fi-easy-connect-specification
  15. IEEE P802.11be™/D6.0 Draft Standard for Information technology— Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, Amendment 8: Enhancements for extremely high throughput (EHT), https://www.ieee802.org/11/private/Draft_Standards/11be/Draft%20P802.11b... (access limited to active IEEE Standards Association members)

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