Chapter 12Wireless Security
This chapter presents problems relating to computer security. We first discuss the traditional problems of security, and then we focus on how mobile and wireless systems introduce some additional problems and make some traditional problems more difficult. We conclude with a discussion of ad hoc networks and electronic commerce. Chapter 13 will describe how these problems are addressed.
12.1 Traditional Security Issues
In this section we present the traditional security criteria. While these apply to nonmobile computing as well, they are important for mobile computing not only because the same risks are present but also because certain properties of mobile computing increase some of these risks, such as eavesdropping ...
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