[Battlemesh] Encryption on ad-hoc mode

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello,


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Antonio Quartulli <ordex at autistici.org> wrote:
> 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.

It shouldn't be a problem, because broadcasts on WiFi are usually at
1Mbit, so there is a very low limit to the total work that could be
required.

Paul.

> Cheers,
>
>
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> Antonio Quartulli
>
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