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Protection against unauthorized wireless access points

  • US 8,457,594 B2
  • Filed: 08/25/2006
  • Issued: 06/04/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a wireless network where users connect to the wireless network through one or more wireless access points, a system for preventing connection with an unauthorized wireless access points, comprising:

  • an authentication server configured to;

    receive, from a user device, a password established by the user over a secure link prior to the user attempting an unsecured connection to the wireless network through a wireless access point, the secure link being a hardwired link between the user device and an authorized wireless access point; and

    provide the user-established password to each authorized wireless access point; and

    a user device configured to;

    receive, over the secure link, an authentication program;

    locate a wireless access point;

    request the user-established password when the user connects to the located wireless access point with the user device, after connecting to the authentication server over the secure link;

    attempt to authenticate the located wireless access point with the user-established password;

    determine, when the located wireless access point does not have the user-established password, that the located wireless access point is unauthorized; and

    transmit an alert to the authentication server, based on the determination that the located wireless access point is unauthorized, the alert identifying the located wireless access point as unauthorized.

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