perche' inquietante ? a me sembrano buone notizie. Sembra che l'industria stia pensando di usare OpenWrt come piattaforma per i router residenziali.
puoi spiegare meglio il tuo commento ? Saverio Il 28 gennaio 2014 22:42, Leandro Noferini <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Ciao a tutti, > > si parla di openwrt in un'ottica decisamente inquietante. > > > > ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ---------- > From: Sean Alexandre <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:35:17 -0500 > Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] ISC wraps up Open Home Gateway Forum > From: Brian Reed > https://www.isc.org/blogs/author/breid/ > > ISC wraps up Open Home Gateway Forum > https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-wraps-up-open-home-gateway-forum/ > > Following a successful public demonstration at the 88th Internet Engineering > Task Force (IETF) meeting November 2013, ISC’s Open Home Gateway Forum team > has > submitted its code for package signing and validation to the OpenWrt project. > ISC is now disbanding the Open Home Gateway Forum since this code has been > completed. > > Comcast and ISC created the Open Home Gateway Forum (OHGF) to address problems > in managing large numbers of home gateway devices. The Open Home Gateway > Forum > (OHGF) team created and demonstrated enhancements to OpenWrt that enabled > a robust process for remote configuration and software upgrade. This could > allow an ISP to securely update home gateway devices, and might be leveraged > more broadly by OpenWrt to provide automatic software updates. This is > important since so much customer premise equipment never receives a software > update, creating significant future security vulnerabilities. This new > feature > can mitigate the risk of software never being updated, which has recently been > in the news in an article by Bruce Schneier and in a malware attack affecting > Internet devices. > > The remote configuration and update process uses cryptographic signatures and > checksum verification to ensure the integrity of the update source as well as > the validity of the software downloaded. These extra security measures protect > the home gateway from downloading or installing software delivered by or > tampered with by any unauthorized party. > > As the largest cable Internet Provider in North America, Comcast has a vested > interest in solving this problem. One way they have chosen to address it by > funding the development of a transparent open source solution. > > OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution that runs on over 80 > different manufacturer’s embedded systems. OpenWrt is an open source project, > meaning that the source code is freely available, and they welcome > contributions from contributors anywhere in the world. Many of the millions > of > home gateways connected to the Internet run software based on OpenWrt. > Improvements made in OpenWrt can have a wide-ranging impact. > > “We are part of a community working together to address a global Internet > problem,” stated Gregers Petersen, OpenWrt Relationship Manager. “We welcome > the support of, and collaboration with, ISC and Comcast. The open source > model is once again proving to be the best way to tackle the really tough > technical problems that affect us all.” > > “OpenWrt is a vibrant open source project and their software is used by many > of > our Xfinity Internet customers as well as countless other Internet users,” > said > Jason Livingood, Vice President of Internet & Communications Engineering at > Comcast. “We are happy that ISC was able to develop a unique way of secure > remote configuration and update, since regular and automatic software updates > are a critical part of ensuring the ongoing security of Internet-connected > consumer devices.” > > After working with the OHGF team, OpenWrt is continuing to add support for > detecting and recovering from interrupted installs and is working on a way to > safely do home gateway kernel upgrades. For more information about OpenWrt, > or > to contribute or download the software distribution, see > http://www.openwrt.org. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
