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US 2007/0192832 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for protection of management frames
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsEmily Qi, Jesse Walker
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Abstract
In one embodiment, methods and apparatus to protect management frames are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
Claims30
An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver configured to receive an unprotected wireless communication including a management frame having a plurality of unprotected parameters, and to receive a protected wireless communication including a plurality of protected parameters corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of unprotected parameters;
- and
- an authentication module coupled to the receiver to compare the plurality of protected parameters with the corresponding unprotected parameters to determine whether they are the same.
A method comprising:
- receiving an unprotected wireless communication including a management frame having a plurality of unprotected parameters;
- receiving a protected wireless communication including a plurality of protected parameters corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of unprotected parameters;
- and
- comparing the plurality of protected parameters with the corresponding unprotected parameters to determine whether they are the same.
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An article comprising a storage medium;
- and a plurality of instructions stored in the storage medium, the plurality of instructions designed to enable an apparatus to receive an unprotected wireless communication including a management frame having a plurality of unprotected parameters and a protected wireless communication including a plurality of protected parameters corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of unprotected parameters;
- to compare the plurality of protected parameters with the corresponding unprotected parameters to determine if they are the same;
- and to generate an indication as to whether they are the same.
A system, comprising:
- a plurality of omnidirectional antennas;
- an authenticator wireless transmitter coupled to the antennas and configured to transmit to a supplicant an unprotected wireless communication including a management frame having a plurality of unprotected parameters;
- a wireline based transceiver configured to transmit and receive data from an authentication server;
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- an authenticator module coupled to the authenticator transmitter and the transceiver to access one or more security parameters from the authenticator server to generate a plurality of protected parameters corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of unprotected parameters, and to transmit via the authenticator transmitter to the supplicant a protected wireless communication including a plurality of protected parameters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.