[Battlemesh] Encryption on ad-hoc mode

[Pau]

Hi.
I'm very interested on such feature, I read about it five month ago and
since then I wanted to test it. However it has never happened...
Please, if you test it, could you send a report?
Thx!

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:44 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> --
> Antonio Quartulli
>
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