This paper is a clear and complete survey of how link layer keys are established and used in UWB and 802.11 standards. It pays particular attention to group keys, and puts it in context with recent proposals for "one-shot" group key establishment. Technical --------- - Section 4: it is true that distributing the group key by using pair-wise security associations is cumbersome when groups come into being all at once. But possibly the more common use case for WLAN (and possibly UWB?) are groups that grow gradually one member at a time. - Section 4, page 5, end of last column: "This method is still unsecure" .. why? How can the expelled device which "recorded one association between two other devices" find out the new group key? Are you assuming that this one association is based on a short password or something? - Section 5, both link layers use sender-specific group keys (GTKs). If the upper layer group key agreement protocol is used to distribute GTKs, how will it work? Will the same upper-layer group key be used to encapsulate n different GTKs? -> what is the rationale for sender-specific GTKs? Editorial --------- - Not too many editorial issues. Very nicely written! A little too verbose, but that is better than being too compact. - page 3 s/simples/simplest( - For section 2 and section 3, it might help to draw the pictures of the respective key hierarchies. - Section 3.2: I guess GTK is generated by diversifying GMK. It might be worth saying so explicitly: ".. GTK is generated ... by diversifying the .. GMK ... with GNonce, fixed sgtring, and the identifier .."