[Battlemesh] Encryption on ad-hoc mode

[Simon Wunderlich]

There are two ways:

 * WPA-NONE sets static keys used for encryption of unicast and
   broadcast with the same keys. Note that this is less secure
   because of missing key exchange, replay countermeasures etc.
   This feature is available for quite some time for madwifi and
   ath9k/mac80211
 * IBSS-RSN is quite a new feature to build encryption between
   individual Ad-Hoc peers. This feature has been more recently
   introduced to mac80211 and should (I think) be available on 
   OpenWRT as well. Antonio has worked on this and contributed
   quite a few patches. :)

Cheers
	Simon


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:52:09PM -0700, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Has anybody done encryption on ad-hoc mode? Is it possible? It is
> portable? Are there any performance issues? Is this hardware supported?
> Do all nodes share the same session key or it is smart enough to use
> custom session keys for each unicast and common only for broadcast?
> 
> 
> Mitar
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