TY - JOUR T1 - The dangers of mitigating security design flaws: a wireless case study JF - IEEE Security & Privacy Y1 - 2003 A1 - Petroni,N. L. A1 - Arbaugh, William A. KW - Communication system security KW - computer security KW - cryptography KW - design flaw mitigation KW - Dictionaries KW - legacy equipment KW - privacy KW - Protection KW - Protocols KW - security design flaws KW - security of data KW - synchronous active attack KW - telecommunication security KW - Telecommunication traffic KW - wired equivalent privacy protocol KW - Wireless LAN KW - wireless local area networks KW - Wireless networks AB - Mitigating design flaws often provides the only means to protect legacy equipment, particularly in wireless local area networks. A synchronous active attack against the wired equivalent privacy protocol demonstrates how mitigating one flaw or attack can facilitate another. VL - 1 SN - 1540-7993 CP - 1 M3 - 10.1109/MSECP.2003.1176993 ER -