[OpenWireless Tech] My thoughts on deploying a secure mesh network.

[Griff]

The recent "hornet" protocol is somewhat similar. It is an academic 
cryptographic network-level protocol as well, designed as a faster 
alternative to TOR by researchers from Carnegie Mellon Univ, ETH Zurich, 
and  university College London. It isn't necessarily easy to use, 
however. Check out http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.05724v1.pdf if you're 
interested, or just google "hornet protocol" and you'll see several 
blogs summarizing hornet, some of which are inaccurate.

On 07/29/2015 03:42 AM, Mattias Eliasson wrote:
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> Hi
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> For quite some time I've been thinking about how to release Internet 
> from various problems and now that I found the OpenWireless project 
> I'll share some of my ideas to see what response I get. I've spent a 
> lot of time thinking about usability and cost of deployment rather 
> than just focusing on technical issues. I think that the usability 
> perspective is very important. The easier it is for users to open up 
> their networks, the more users will join.
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> While analysing the technical and security aspect of this idea please 
> also consider the usability aspect. This idea is very plug and play 
> and allows for the creation of a router and installable software that 
> will connect users without additional configuration. Its usage as a 
> flexible VPN technology alone makes it a free alternative to Cisco:s 
> Dynamic Multipoint VPN. Of course the latter will require some 
> configuration but not more than any VPN service. For the network 
> administrator it will probably be far easier to set up this as a VPN 
> than any traditional technology.
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> My suggestion is to make a new network-level protocol that allows for 
> automatic configuration of mesh networking. Let's call it the CIP, 
> Cryptographic Internet Protocol. It's inspired by Serval Project’s 
> MDP, Mesh Datagram Protocol.
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> Like MDP and other cryptographic protocols like TOR and I2P it relies 
> on self generated public keys for addressing, and encryption to secure 
> its contents and provide some degree of anonymity. From MDP we can 
> derive automatic routing. This makes it fully distributed and "plug 
> and play". Fast autonomous mesh networking was the main design goal, 
> not anonymity. Whatever anonymity it provides that’s just a bonus.
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