"Catching The Man-in-the-Middle"

Dr. Santosh Ganji, a computer engineering doctoral graduate, and Dr. P.R. Kumar, a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Texas A&M University, are working on improving wireless network security. When two entities communicate wirelessly, it is difficult to determine whether a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) is present. Kumar and Ganji have discovered how to flush out the MitM using a timing-based protocol called REVEAL, which overloads the MitM with messages and causes it to fail. The REVEAL protocol challenges and exceeds the MitM's capabilities by carefully timing its packets, thus causing MitM failure. This article continues to discuss the study "Seeing the Unseen: The REVEAL Protocol to Expose the Wireless Man-in-the-Middle."

The Texas A&M University College of Engineering reports "Catching The Man-in-the-Middle"

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