LAMBA Jaideep wrote:
Are there any solutions currently under implementation for providing security (other than open/wep) over adhoc networks ?
What kind of security do you need? Security is a big field. Maybe you just mean encryption and authentication.....
When you only want to make the whole wlan stuff unreadable for the outside, you could just use WPA_NONE. But this doesn't resolve the problem that the key could leak and make the mesh attackable - but that is something which could always happen. So it is probably not a solution for freifunk projects, but for mesh networks controlled by a company.
There are other ideas for traffic over batman-adv. Just forget about encrypting your data over wifi, but instead do everything some layers above it. I think Linus had some ideas in implementing the needed authentication and encryption over IPsec in a mesh. I am not sure what his ideas were exactly, but maybe he could add some more information about that.
And most of the encryption and authentication stuff has to be resolved by the user and not by the network provider. This means https for sensible data instead of http, ssh instead of telnet, pop3s instead of pop3 and so on.
So it really depends what you want and cannot be resolved in a "security for everything, against any attack and for every purpose" blob.
Best regards, Sven