[Olsr-dev] New OLSRd Plugin (derivative of olsrd_secure)

[Henning Rogge]

I am just curious,

do you have also experimented with using IPsec with a static shared
key to encrypt/sign your traffic hop-by-hop ?

Henning Rogge

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Will Hawkins
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/21/2012 12:25 PM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 21/12/12 17:54, Will Hawkins wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/21/2012 07:51 AM, Saverio Proto wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> do you have your git branch published somewhere on the web  ?
>>>
>>> No, but I could easily make that happen. You could just pull from that
>>> to review the code then, right?
>>>
>>
>> I think we would happily look at your code but you have to make it easy
>> for us to understand it ;-)
>
> I'm happy to make it easy for you to understand, once I understand it
> :-) Just kidding, of course.
>
> I posted the repo with the mdp branch to github under
> https://github.com/opentechinstitute/olsrd-mdp
>
> As I said previously, this relies heavily on olsrd-secure and I followed
> their style (which hopefully matches up with the project's general style).
>
> I look forward to your feedback. Happy Friday everyone!
>
> Will
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Will
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Saverio
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2012/12/20 Will Hawkins <(spam-protected)>:
>>>>> Hello everyone!
>>>>>
>>>>> The Open Technology Institute has created a new plugin for OLSRd known
>>>>> as olsrd_mdp (Mesh Datagram Protocol [MDP] Secure OLSR). The plugin
>>>>> integrates OLSRd with Serval to create a mechanism for signing OLSR
>>>>> packets with a shared private key stored in a Serval keyring. This
>>>>> plugin is a derivative of the olsrd_secure plugin.
>>>>>
>>>>> Serval is a mesh networking project out of Australia
>>>>> (http://www.servalproject.org). One of their main products, serval-dna,
>>>>> includes a keyring that stores (and optionally locks) a set of
>>>>> public/private keypairs. olsrd_mdp takes a private key from Serval's
>>>>> key
>>>>> ring and uses it to sign OLSR packets.
>>>>>
>>>>> It differs from olsrd_secure in a few ways:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. olsrd_mdp is configured with a key identifier. The key identifier
>>>>> allows the user to specify which keypair from the Serval keyring will
>>>>> sign packets.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. olsrd_mdp allows for variable-length keys.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. olsrd_mdp salts AND signs OLSR packets with a private key.
>>>>>
>>>>> We would really like to share this plugin with the OLSRd community. We
>>>>> developed the plugin in a branch off of master but the plugin requires
>>>>> Serval's serval-dna development kit to compile. This brings up two
>>>>> questions:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. How do plugin makefiles alert the user that they need configuration
>>>>> to compile correctly? The necessary parameter is documented in the
>>>>> olsrd_mdp README file. Is there another better way to document this?
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. What is the best way to submit the plugin for review for possible
>>>>> inclusion? I did my best to follow OLSRd code standards while
>>>>> developing, but I'd appreciate your feedback in spotting the places
>>>>> where I inevitably messed up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for reading this rather long message. We are really excited
>>>>> about
>>>>> the possibility of sharing this plugin with the OLSRd community.
>>>>>
>>>>> Talk to you soon!
>>>>> Will
>>>>>
>>>>>
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