Hi,

> It is my personal experience that open SSIDs are more trouble than they are 
> worth. Open means open, trying to shoe-horn security into it makes trouble 
> for everyone.  I can't tell you how much trouble i have been through because 
> people want the ease of open SSIDs with the security of WPA2 Enterprise ... 
> it simply does not exist.
> 

Since the topic comes to the discussion, I was approached by a SOWA
(Secure Open Wireless Access) guy at Defcon:

http://blogs.iss.net/archive/SownCode.html

Infrastructure is auth by SSL (CN matches SSID), client-side doesn't
authenticate, pretty much like HTTPS works 99,9999% of the time.

It's *very* clever but unfortunately requires small client side changes
so convincing the OS vendors is necessary.

Anyways, after I'm done with some more fingerbank work, I would like to
work on making SOWA possible. PacketFence, as a turnkey RADIUS provider,
is in a good position to at least demo it.

Anyone want to help?

Cheers!
-- 
Olivier Bilodeau
[email protected]  ::  +1.514.447.4918 *115  ::  www.inverse.ca
Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence
(www.packetfence.org)

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