What kind of help do you need?

GG

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Olivier Bilodeau <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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