[Battlemesh] Encryption on ad-hoc mode

[Antonio Quartulli]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:15:09AM -0700, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Right now, using OpenWRT and one of the ibss/rsn enabled drivers (like ath9k,
> > ath5k, iwlwifi and others..), it should work out of the box[tm].
> 
> Which version of OpenWrt? trunk or latest stable?

trunk has the support for sure, while I don't think that backfire does support
it.

> 
> > The only drawback at the moment is that broadcast packets are encrypted in sw
> > (so reducing broadcast throughput a bit), but I don't think this is a real
> > problem.
> 
> And unicast is encrypted how?

In hw, by the device/chip itself (as normally happens when a device is used in
managed mode). To do the same with broadcast packets we need some driver
supports which is currently missing. But for what I have seen this is not
hurting at all.

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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