[Olsr-users] High-level questions about encryption on OLSR ad-hoc mesh

[Henning Rogge]

On Tue March 1 2011 08:49:55 Ben West wrote:
> Hi Henning,
> 
> Thank you for the responses.  I was indeed looking into attaching
> VPN-capable boxes at wired points on the mesh to create encrypted tunnels
> where necessary, not only because the firmware stack I'm using (OpenWRT +
> ath9k) doesn't appear to support encryption in ad-hoc at present, but also
> because I would expect such encryption to take a heavy toll on the little
> 400MHz CPUs of the access points.
If WPA2 wouldbe working, the encryption might happen on the WLAN chip 
(depending on the hardware).

> Are there requirements on the key in this text file, or is it arbitrary?
see /lib/secure/README_SECURE
 
> I.e. could it be any sequence of characters, ideally of some non-trivial
> length and with decent entropy?  E.g. an MD5 hash of the current UNIX time?
Each nodes must be configured with the SAME keyfile.

Henning Rogge
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