From: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: Authenticity of routing information in Batman
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 10:55:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3737986.TLkxdtWsSY@rousseau> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230630144623.238fe33e@parrot>
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
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2023-06-30 12:46 Authenticity of routing information in Batman Marek Küthe
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