1. Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: Security Suite Compromise
Date Submitted: 14 March, 2002
Source: Gregg Rasor
Company: Motorola
Address: 1500 Gateway Blvd., Boynton Beach, Florida 33426
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Re: P Security Suite Selection
Abstract: A compromise solution is shown that implements flexible, scalable security in the WPAN.
Purpose: Detail a flexible, scalable security solution for the WPAN.
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2. Security Suite Compromise
Gregg Rasor,
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
Motorola Labs

3. Scalable, Open Security Model

4. Commitments for Completion
Letters of commitment by Walt Davis and Scott Vanstone that the completed draft will be delivered to the Technical Editor by April 5, 2002 at 5 PM PST.
Define the elliptic curves necessary for implementation according to FIPS 197.
Must have a completely specified ECC version of 02/131r0.

5. Certificate Applicability
In order to promote interoperability and scalability, the MAC (MLME message and frame formats) of the draft standard shall support the use of certificates.
Devices shall not be required to use certificates, and the type of certificate used shall be selectable by the security suite. When security option 3 is selected, implicit certificates and an alternative certificate method that is unencumbered by intellectual property will be specified as options in the draft standard for the required certificates.
This implementation allows selection of either a manual, challenge and response authentication mode, or an automatic, certificate based authentication mode.