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Wifi Gate Guard: A Captive Portal Implementation For Home Networks, Ben Blumenberg
Wifi Gate Guard: A Captive Portal Implementation For Home Networks, Ben Blumenberg
Computer Science and Software Engineering
WiFi Gate Guard aims to improve the user experience for authentication on home wireless networks, by alleviating some of the hardships causes by passwords and by offering a platform on which further security enhancements could be built. It accomplishes this by using captive portal technology, making it extremely easy for guests to authenticate without needing to ask for a password. Home network administrators can approve or deny access using a simple iOS app. WiFi Gate Guard is built to run on basic home routers, with minimal other hardware requirements. Once it’s up and running, passwords never need to be used …