[Olsr-users] Inquiry about secure plugin of OLSR

[Rogge Henning]

Its binary, not a string... so even Null-bytes are valid.

The first 16 bytes of the file will be used as the key.

Henning Rogge

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Zack Genesis [mailto:(spam-protected)] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011 15:03
> An: Rogge Henning
> Cc: (spam-protected); Markus Kittenberger
> Betreff: Re: Inquiry about secure plugin of OLSR
> 
> When you say any character... Does it include spacebar as well???
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Zack Genesis 
> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
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> 
> 	Well Im register...
> 	Similarly I didnt get your mail through the list as well...
> 	Which I used to recieve
> 
> 
> 	On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Rogge Henning 
> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
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> 
> 		The keyfile contains a 16 byte binary key... so 
> you can use any character you want.
> 		
> 		Henning Rogge
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> 		P.S.: Could it be that you are not registered 
> on the olsr-users Mailinglist? I don't get your mails at home 
> through the list.
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> 		> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> 		> Von: Zack Genesis [mailto:(spam-protected)]
> 		> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011 14:26
> 		> An: Rogge Henning
> 		
> 		> Cc: (spam-protected); Markus Kittenberger
> 		
> 		> Betreff: Re: Inquiry about secure plugin of OLSR
> 		
> 		>
> 		> Sorry to bother again...
> 		>
> 		>
> 		> A quick question... Regarding the secure plugin Key...
> 		> Other than Alphanumeric... Can the key or 
> password be input
> 		> by using Non-alphanumeric character?
> 		>
> 		>
> 		> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Henning Rogge
> 		> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> 		>
> 		>
> 		>       On Wed May 11 2011 17:01:36 Zack Genesis wrote:
> 		>       > I see... I get your point there...
> 		>       > Other than the blackhole route method 
> which might
> 		> somehow block off unicast
> 		>       > packet.
> 		>       > Is there a way to convert unicast 
> packets in to OLSR
> 		> packet... maybe
> 		>       > something like encapsulate Non-olsr 
> packet into olsr packet?
> 		>       > If it can be done... will the packet 
> be block off by
> 		> the secure plugin??
> 		>
> 		>       I think you still misunderstand the 
> purpose of the
> 		> OLSRd daemon. Its a pure
> 		>       routing daemon that decides about 
> forwarding rules to
> 		> other nodes and tell the
> 		>       kernel about it.
> 		>
> 		>       It's neither designed nor able to handle unicast
> 		> traffic of the network. One
> 		>       reason an OLSRd mesh is pretty fast even on slow
> 		> hardware is that the traffic of
> 		>       the network does not need to be 
> transfered into userspace.
> 		>
> 		>       The only thing I see what you could do 
> is to write an
> 		> OLSR plugin that somehow
> 		>       controls your local firewall to block 
> of unwanted
> 		> packages. But even then an
> 		>       attacker would just spoof his IP address.
> 		>
> 		>       Using IPsec for unicast might be the 
> better sollution.
> 		>
> 		>
> 		>       Henning Rogge
> 		>
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