![]() On the contrary, a computer’s serial number is hard-coded in the system hardware only and therefore cannot be spoofed and altered making it unique, secure and reliable. A MAC address, a physical network address that is used as basis for this study, has a copy of its value in the system software that can be spoofed and altered rendering the address not unique, not secure and unreliable. With the increase of wireless LAN usage in homes and enterprises due to its numerous benefits, authenticating the ever increasing number of devices and their users has become a challenge to proprietors of such kind networks. Masese and Andrew Kipkebut, Kabarak University, Kenya Volume 14, Number 4 Prototyping a Serial Number based Authentication Model for a Computer in a Wireless Local Area Network Authors
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