Does this idea require a keeping a private key on the router?  If so,
that's a problem, since routers are often quite vulnerable to physical
access.  If an entire community network relied on a single certificate
for authentication across all of their infrastructure (based on their
extended SSID), then losing one AP could mean complete compromise.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Diderik van Wingerden
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mitar,
>
> Thanks for sharing. I am no expert on the subject, but it sounds like a
> great addition to open wireless (and wireless networking in general). So
> would it be possible to implement this in LibreCMC (or OpenWRT) for
> example? And would it then require something on the client's end? Like a
> new driver or certificate, as you mention? I mean, the solution would of
> course be adopted much faster if a client install/config of some sort
> would not be necessary, or at least be super easy.
>
> best regards,
> Diderik
>
>
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>> From: Mitar <[email protected]>
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>> Subject: [OpenWireless Tech] Open secure wireless
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>> Hi!
>>
>> Reading this old post:
>>
>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement
>>
>> I wanted to point some research done on this some time ago:
>>
>> http://www.riosec.com/articles/Open-Secure-Wireless
>> http://www.riosec.com/articles/Open-Secure-Wireless/Open-Secure-Wireless.pdf
>>
>> And also some progress:
>>
>> http://www.riosec.com/articles/open-secure-wireless-20
>>
>> If you are not doing that already, I think EFF should get on board of
>> supporting those changes to the standard.
>>
>> (BTW, originally, as presented in 1.0 paper, WiFi standard does allow
>> open and secure connections, just no operating system really
>> implements it because they all first prompt for the password, before
>> trying to connect to the encrypted WiFi network to figure out the
>> password is really required.)
>>
>>
>> Mitar
>>
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