From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: jpo234 <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WPA for Ethernet?
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:28:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110211162845.GC2224@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110211T163104-102@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:39:03PM +0000, jpo234 wrote:
> Hello all,
> is it possible to use the mac80211 (software) encryption infrastructure to
> encrypt data over non 802.11 interfaces? If not, how hard would this be?
>
> IPsec and other VPN solutions are "tunnel centric" instead of "interface
> centric". I'm looking for a way to say "All inbound and outbound traffic through
> this interface must be encrypted with the following key.", just like WPA-PSK.
I believe wpa_supplicant can do the 802.1x authentication to gain
access to a port on a supporting switch. However, I am not aware
of any standard for "encrypted ethernet" that would build upon that.
You might consider implementing your own code on top of the TUN/TAP
driver for point-to-point encrypted links?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-11 15:39 WPA for Ethernet? jpo234
2011-02-11 16:28 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2011-02-12 0:08 ` jpo
2011-02-14 12:10 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-14 13:03 ` jpo234
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2011-02-11 16:51 Henry Ptasinski
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