News and Notes

1. Slides by Jesse Walker of Intel about 802.11 Security Issues and the proposed 802.11i specs
2. A web page maintained by Bill Arbaugh of UMCP about 802.11 security issues.
3. Presentation about Bluetooth Security from KU Leuven
4. Slides used by Mr. Parker for his guest lecture about ad-hoc routing security
5. Project announced in class
6. Prof. Nitin Vaidya's page of Tutorials related to wireless networking issues. We'll use his draft InfoCom2004 tutorial to describe basic ad-hoc routing issues.
7. Exam 1 will be on April 1. The material covered will exclude topics on sensor networks. This means that the exam will be on the material we've covered in class about basic ideas, WLAN security, and MANET security. This includes papers 1 through 9 on the web site.
8. The proof of the key predistribution scheme we discussed in class needs the following step. Basically, the probablity that the 2 keyrings do not share a key is the number of ways you can select the 2nd keyring divided by the total number of possible keyrings. In other words, P-k Choose k / P Choose k