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A Multilateral Secure Payment System for Wireless LAN Hotspots

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Overview Beginning with the adoption of the de-facto standard for wireless LAN communications IEEE 802.11 in 1999 one can observe a continuous growth of public wireless LAN hotspots that provide access to the Internet for modern road warriors. Unfortunately, current hotspots still suffer from several security drawbacks. This paper analyses how payment schemes used in current hotspot architectures consider the security requirements of both hotspot providers and subscribers. The paper identifies a conflict between subscribers' wish for privacy and hotspot providers' interest in prohibiting unlicensed (and thus unpaid) usage of the hotspot as the most challenging security objectives a future payment system has to fulfill.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Wireless LAN, Security Management

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