Re: Authenticity of routing information in Batman

Hi,

I am not concerned with encryption or authentication of the traffic, only of the routing information. Is there anything like this in Batman (Adv)?

currently, batman-adv has no mesh authentication built-in.

If not, is it planned to implement something like this?

I am not aware anyone is working on this topic.

If there isn't, does anyone have an idea how something like this could be done differently (in a different layer)?

The typical approach is to use WiFi encryption (IBSS RSN or 11s SAE) which gives you the additional benefit of traffic encryption. SAE also allows a separate encryption key per peer to avoid having a sharde secret which can leak.

Cheers, Marek