Abstract
Wireless network is becoming more and more popular and widespread with the great advance of wireless LAN techniques and the wide deployment of Wi-Fi equipment. However, there is an emerging and serious threat that can severely compromise the security of wireless users – Rouge Access Point Attack. An adversary can set up a rogue access point as a platform to launch a variety of attacks. A rogue AP in a wireless LAN is essentially a phishing wireless AP that looks like a legitimate access point with the same or similar SSID, but actually it has been set up by an adversary, the rogue AP will lure careless wireless users to connect with it and redirect victims to phishing websites so that adversary can eavesdrop and inject on wireless communications of Internet access through rogue AP. In this thesis, we provide a system that is a defense technique against Rogue Access Point Attack. We analyze and evaluate the security of our system in wireless LAN environment and compare our system with other related defense techniques. The result shows our system better than other defense techniques of rogue AP on security and feasibility.