James Kempf wrote:

>>As far as user is concerned, this would be no different than from
>>configuring the "password" to the WLAN card of each host that wants to
>>participate. Only, with IPSEC the crypto would be much stronger.
> 
> We could leverge the roaming consortium or L2 AAA for this perhaps?
> Getting the user involved is not such a good option, as this has nothing
> at all to do with anything the user might be concerned about.

Something like 802.1x EAP with an appropriate EAP submethod that generates
session keys could be used here. Then you would get per-host session keys,
and presumably all announcements coming from the router would have to be
duplicated for all receivers, and there'd be no host-host communication. Perhaps
that might be good in enough in some cases.

Alternatively, AAA might give you the overall key for the network. In that
case there'd be no limitations mentioned above, but you could spoof yourself
as the router or the other hosts. Not sure there's increase in security
compared to where we started, if unsuccessful network access authentication
throws you out of the link.

Jari

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