[Olsr-users] secure plugin

[Henning Rogge]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 16:48, Bernd Petrovitsch <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On Sam, 2008-09-20 at 00:34 +0100, Derek C wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does someone have a link to information about the OLSRd secure plugin?
>
> Not really. I tries it once or two times. You need a shared key,
> (secure-)copy the key to all nodes, configure it correctly and it simply
> worked. All packets are sent encrypted then.
No... the secure plugin only "signs" the packages with a checksum. No
encryption is done at all.

> That implies BTW, that you have to trust the admins of all nodes in the
> net.
Yes.

Henning

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