Subject: [OPSEC] request for review of draft-orr-wireless-lan-architectures-00

From: "Stephen Orr (sorr)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:19:11 +0000

All,

Can I request that some members of the opsec WG review a draft that I recently submitted:  draft-orr-wireless-lan-architectures-00 "Cryptographic Security Characteristics of 802.11 Wireless LAN Access Systems."

The intent of the informational draft is to identify all of the places that cryptography is used in Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) architectures, to simplify the task of selecting the protocols, algorithms, and key sizes needed to  achieve a consistent security level across the entire architecture.

As Wireless LAN Access systems are deployed today there is no clearly defined end-to-end security consistency required which could result in the overall cryptographic strength of the WLAN System being brought down to the lowest cryptographic strength of one of the components. With this draft we are hoping to lay the foundation for other's to construct profiles that should specify the exact end-to-end cryptographic characteristics required to provide consistency.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Stephen Orr