[Battlemesh] Encryption on ad-hoc mode

Mitar mitar at tnode.com
Sat Oct 27 05:04:09 UTC 2012


Hi!

> There was some guy writing a small tutorial in the open-mesh.org wiki. I
> removed it because it was not the right place (and it needed some cleanup).
> But maybe it helps you.

I see why tutorial is not the best:

> If there is any output saying:
> @random: Only XX/20 bytes of strong random data available from
> /dev/random@
> @random: Not enough entropy pool available for secure operations@
> @WPA: Not enough entropy in random pool for secure operations -
> update keys later@
>
> You can use this workaround:
> @mv /dev/random / dev/random.orig@
> @ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random@

Really great and secure suggestion! :-)

BTW, this opens a question to me, how really does our node get entropy
for random? There are no keyboards, mouse, disk access, which are
traditional sources? And if you need random before configuring network
interface, then also network interface cannot be source of random entropy?


Mitar


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