WaveSEC Wireless Security Testing by Xelerence at Black Hat

Paul Wouter of Xelerence Corp. of Canada, is a fan of IPsec. The company maintains and develops Opswan, the Linux IPsec implementation, and he thinks IPsec should be the default tool for wireless connections. Wouter used the Black Hat Briefings this week to test a prototype IPsec wireless authentication scheme called WaveSEC for Windows clients. . . . Paul Wouter of Xelerence Corp. of Canada, is a fan of IPsec. The company maintains and develops Opswan, the Linux IPsec implementation, and he thinks IPsec should be the default tool for wireless connections. Wouter used the Black Hat Briefings this week to test a prototype IPsec wireless authentication scheme called WaveSEC for Windows clients.

The computer security conference provides wireless network connections for its attendees, but the security-conscious crowd is leery of the notorious shortcomings of the 802.11 family of wireless LANs. Instructions for using the conference's network carry the warning, "surf at your own risk."

But this year's conference is using a WaveSEC overlay on the network and the CD of proceedings includes an X.509 digital certificate that lets users help work the bugs out of the tool.

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