[OpenWireless Tech] Open Wireless encryption

[michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com]

Hi!

On 21:10 Mon 12 Aug     , Björn Smedman wrote:
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> Another way to move the trust anchor out of the AP is to just not
> terminate the IEEE 802.11 protocol there, instead forwarding the raw
> encrypted 802.11 frames over IP across the WAN to a trusted location.
> The 802.11 security will then protect the connection end-to-end - sort
> of like a VPN but with all the advantages of link level security.
...
> This "WPA over the wire" approach is a technically ambitious. But
> we've already gone through the trouble of implementing it (see
> http://anyfi.net) and would love to share with the community.
...

I have seen the anyfi.net project recently and I wondered about how it scales.
Every AP needs needs to know about and send beacons for every "trusted
location". Correct my if I am wrong.

	-Michi
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