Privacy-preserving 802.11 access-point discovery

J Lindqvist, T Aura, G Danezis, T Koponen… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
J Lindqvist, T Aura, G Danezis, T Koponen, A Myllyniemi, J Mäki, M Roe
Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Wireless network security, 2009dl.acm.org
It is usual for 802.11 WLAN clients to probe actively for access points in order to hasten AP
discovery and to find" hidden" APs. These probes reveal the client's list of preferred
networks, thus, present a privacy risk: an eavesdropper can infer attributes of the client
based on its associations with networks. We propose an access-point discovery protocol that
supports fast discovery and hidden networks while also preserving privacy. Our solution is
incrementally deployable, efficient, requires only small modifications to current client and AP …
It is usual for 802.11 WLAN clients to probe actively for access points in order to hasten AP discovery and to find "hidden" APs. These probes reveal the client's list of preferred networks, thus, present a privacy risk: an eavesdropper can infer attributes of the client based on its associations with networks. We propose an access-point discovery protocol that supports fast discovery and hidden networks while also preserving privacy. Our solution is incrementally deployable, efficient, requires only small modifications to current client and AP implementations, interoperates with current networks, and does not change the user experience. We note that our solution is faster than the standard hidden-network discovery protocol based on measurements on a prototype implementation.
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