"Security
is the corner stone of WiFi network deployment."
The EAP smartcard won the Best Technological innovation award, at cartes'2003
http://www.cartes.com/en/frameset_dyn.htm?URL=I_trophee/I4_gagnants.htm
The EAP smartcard won an innovation Card Technology Breakthrough Award,
at Cardtech/SecureTech 2004
http:/www.ctst.com/conferences/CTST04/
English Papers.
"draft-urien-EAP-smartcard-04.txt", internet draft november 2003.
This document describes the interface to the EAP protocol in smartcards, which could store multiple identities associated to Network Access Identifiers.Presentations during the last IETF sessions
57th IETF, Wien, AUSTRIA, July 2003, http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/03jul/slides/eap-9/index.html
58th IETF, Minneapolis, MN, USA, November 2003, http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/03nov/slides/eap-10/index.htmlPresentation at Telecom Geneva, 2003
The EAP smartcard,or the ultimate link of the Wi-Fi security chain.Technical Papers
"Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11b have emerged as a new standard but still a lot of security issues remain. One of them issues is the authentication of a terminal to an access point (AP). The IEEE is currently finalizing a framework for security in IEEE 802 networks: IEEE 802.1x that is an approved draft, based on the extensible authentication protocol (EAP). On another hand, among token technologies, smartcards currently offer the best combination of flexibility, security, and cost among token technologies. They have been chosen by the DoD to be widely deployed. Therefore it becomes difficult to speak about security without evoking smartcards. We have focused our work on the integration of smartcards for authentication in wireless networks. In this paper, we will present a smartcard embedding EAP and will show that smartcards could constitute the de-facto device for authentication in Wireless LAN as they have been for GSM and will be for UMTS.""The EAP smartcard. A tamper resistant device dedicated to 802.11 wireless networks", ASWN2003, The 3rd IEEE workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, Berne, Switzerland, July 2003.
"This paper introduces the architecture of a new type of smartcards dedicated to security in wireless networks. Their functionalities have been described in a recent internet draft in which we propose an interface to integrate the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) into smartcards. These devices ensure security features, such as authentication or visitor’s credentials needed for services deployment in 802.11 wireless environments.This paper reviews authentication issues in wireless networks. It suggests to integrate EAP protocol in internet smartcards, so-called SIM-IP, in order to support multiple authentication schemes. Smartcard content is described in XML syntax. Several wireless LAN client profiles, e.g. a set of files and procedures, are stored in a high secured and portable web server in the smartcard, and invoked through HTTP messages."French Papers.
"Sécurité des réseaux sans fil" - Sécurité Informatique (CNRS) - Juin 2002 - n° 40
"La carte
WiFi, un vecteur pour l’authentification des abonnés wireless,
et la facturation des services associés."
La semaine des réseaux et
télécoms, Paris Septembre 2002.
"Wi-Fi,
un GSM-bis pour la carte à puce" - Business Card - Octobre
2002
"La carte à puce EAP, un passeport
pour la sécurité des réseaux émergents Wi-Fi"
JRES 2003, Journées Réseaux
de Lille, Novembre 2003.
Events.
16ème Congrès DNAC : De Nouvelles Architectures pour les Communications.www.wlansmartcard.org
La génération Wi-Fi et l’Internet ambiant. Sans fil, ad hoc, mobilité.
Paris, Ministère chargé des Télécoms, 2-4 décembre 2002
The first Wi-Fi Smart Card Consortium Plenary Meeting was held the 4th & 5th of February 2003 in Paris.Usefull Links.
During this meeting a presentation of 802.11 security issues and smartcards was done.
The Unofficial 802.11 Security Web Page
EAP support in Microsoft Operating Systems