[OpenWireless Tech] Securing Open Wireless

Christopher Byrd chris at riosec.com
Fri Jul 29 12:14:24 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 21:03, Michael Blizek
> Ok, then let me rephrase and alter things slightly: While on normal WLANs
> the AP owner has to put up such a page, on these WLANs there wouldn't be
> such a page since it's provided as a part of the WLAN protocol. Then there
> will be no mess with the VPN. Accepting the agreement is not done on a web
> page over normal network traffic.

That's already part of IEEE 802.11u. It has been standardized but not
widely adopted.

Christopher



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