[Ninux-Wireless] [Sean Alexandre] [Freedombox-discuss] ISC wraps up Open Home Gateway Forum

[Saverio Proto]

perche' inquietante ? a me sembrano buone notizie. Sembra che
l'industria stia pensando di usare OpenWrt come piattaforma per i
router residenziali.

puoi spiegare meglio il tuo commento ?

Saverio

Il 28 gennaio 2014 22:42, Leandro Noferini <lnoferin a cybervalley.org>
ha scritto:
> Ciao a tutti,
>
> si parla di openwrt in un'ottica decisamente inquietante.
>
>
>
> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Sean Alexandre <sean a alexan.org>
> To: freedombox-discuss a lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:35:17 -0500
> Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] ISC wraps up Open Home Gateway Forum
> From: Brian Reed
> https://www.isc.org/blogs/author/breid/
>
> ISC wraps up Open Home Gateway Forum
> https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-wraps-up-open-home-gateway-forum/
>
> Following a successful public demonstration at the 88th Internet Engineering
> Task Force (IETF) meeting November 2013, ISC’s Open Home Gateway Forum team has
> submitted its code for package signing and validation to the OpenWrt project.
> ISC is now disbanding the Open Home Gateway Forum since this code has been
> completed.
>
> Comcast and ISC created the Open Home Gateway Forum (OHGF) to address problems
> in managing large numbers of home gateway devices.  The Open Home Gateway Forum
> (OHGF) team created and demonstrated enhancements to OpenWrt that enabled
> a robust process for remote configuration and software upgrade. This could
> allow an ISP to securely update home gateway devices, and might be leveraged
> more broadly by OpenWrt to provide automatic software updates. This is
> important since so much customer premise equipment never receives a software
> update, creating significant future security vulnerabilities.  This new feature
> can mitigate the risk of software never being updated, which has recently been
> in the news in an article by Bruce Schneier and in a malware attack affecting
> Internet devices.
>
> The remote configuration and update process uses cryptographic signatures and
> checksum verification to ensure the integrity of the update source as well as
> the validity of the software downloaded. These extra security measures protect
> the home gateway from downloading or installing software delivered by or
> tampered with by any unauthorized party.
>
> As the largest cable Internet Provider in North America, Comcast has a vested
> interest in solving this problem.  One way they have chosen to address it by
> funding the development of a transparent open source solution.
>
> OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution that runs on over 80
> different manufacturer’s embedded systems. OpenWrt is an open source project,
> meaning that the source code is freely available, and they welcome
> contributions from contributors anywhere in the world.  Many of the millions of
> home gateways connected to the Internet run software based on OpenWrt.
> Improvements made in OpenWrt can have a wide-ranging impact.
>
> “We are part of a community working together to address a global Internet
> problem,” stated Gregers Petersen, OpenWrt Relationship Manager.   “We welcome
> the support of, and collaboration with, ISC and Comcast.   The open source
> model is once again proving to be the best way to tackle the really tough
> technical problems that affect us all.”
>
> “OpenWrt is a vibrant open source project and their software is used by many of
> our Xfinity Internet customers as well as countless other Internet users,” said
> Jason Livingood, Vice President of Internet & Communications Engineering at
> Comcast. “We are happy that ISC was able to develop a unique way of secure
> remote configuration and update, since regular and automatic software updates
> are a critical part of ensuring the ongoing security of Internet-connected
> consumer devices.”
>
> After working with the OHGF team, OpenWrt is continuing to add support for
> detecting and recovering from interrupted installs and is working on a way to
> safely do home gateway kernel upgrades.  For more information about OpenWrt, or
> to contribute or download the software distribution, see
> http://www.openwrt.org.
>
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