[OpenWireless Tech] WiFi Direct tech reference?

[Natanael]

The idea is that we have BOTH modes. Authenticated and unauthenticated.
Because I see no reason to restrict it to one of those two.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifip2p.html

Maybe you can take a look at the source code if it is available. Maybe the
"interesting" parts is in the drivers, but what's there already should be
enough to implement this.

The only solution I can see to VPN free reasonable security is
opportunistic encryption with verification of the public key of the router
against a Qr code or NFC tag that is physically protected. Then you just
have to trust the router owner.
Den 2 nov 2012 18:16 skrev "John Gilmore" <gnu at toad.com>:

> > If multiple routers nearby use the same Radius server or they are
> > federated, one WiFi Direct router could deal with setting up access ...
>
> Do you have a technical reference for how the WiFi Direct protocol
> works?  So far I have only been able to find marketing materials for
> it.
>
> > > Those "identity providers" I mentioned could be any kind of local
> > > organizations, and you'd have an account with them.
>
> I thought that the EFF concept of Open Wireless was free, unregistered
> connectivity that's "too cheap to meter".  Like all the folks during
> and after Storm Sandy who had power in their houses and ran
> cellphone-charging cords out so their neighbors could stay connected.
> Nobody was checking IDs and refusing to let the homeless, the
> unwashed, the undocumented, or the unfamiliar plug in.  Open wireless
> networks should be the same, or they aren't worthy of the name.
>
> The challenges are less about authentication, and more about jiggering
> the standards to offer Diffie-Hellman style over-the-air privacy even
> during free and open connections, plus providing priority of service
> to the access point owner's family (versus the neighborhood users).
>
>         John Gilmore
>
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