Back to results
US 2007/0192600 A1Published application
Key handshaking method and system for wireless local area networks
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMarcus Wong, Sergey Bezzateev
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A key handshake method in a wireless local area network (LAN) capable of performing authentication between two wirelessly connected stations by exchanging keys once is provided. Because the security key for authentication can be exchanged by one 4-way handshake between an authenticator and a supplicant in a wireless LAN, an authentication delay can be prevented.
Claims11
A key handshake method in a wireless local area network (LAN) for authentication between wirelessly connected stations, the key handshake method comprising:
- generating a first nonce at a first station;
- transmitting the first nonce from the first station to a second station;
- receiving a second nonce from the second station to the first station, and generating a pair-wise transient key (PTK) based on the second nonce;
- and
- installing the PTK in the first station.
2 more elements
A wirelessly connected system comprising:
- a first mesh point for generating a pair-wise transient key (PTK) based on a supplicant nonce (SNonce) and based on an authenticator nonce (ANonce);
- and
- a second mesh point for generating a pair-wise transient key (PTK) based on a received SNonce and based on an ANonce.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.