[Commotion-dev] GNU 30 Hackday Commotion Security Tasks

[Josh King]

That sounds great; however, I would imagine that rewriting the Broadcom
driver stack would likely be well beyond what could be accomplished in a
3-day hackathon. Perhaps there are other discrete tasks around IBSS-RSN
that could be accomplished? I know that wpa_supplicant's implementation
could use some debugging.

On 09/23/2013 12:31 PM, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
> I'm not sure what areas of interest and expertise will be represented
> at this event, but if there's even a small amount of representation
> from hardware/driver coders, it would be spectacular to get some
> people working on more universal support for the nl80211 kernel-driver
> interface.  Support for the nl80211 interface is a hard prerequisite
> for IBSS-RSN encryption, but there are nevertheless quite a few driver
> families that have no support for nl80211.  In particular, virtually
> none of the broadcom wireless chipsets support this interface, and
> hence very few products that rely on broadcom chipsets can currently
> contribute to a properly-secured mesh network.
> 
> Just my two cents,
> Jordan
> 
> Jordan McCarthy
> Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation
> Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042
> 
> On 09/13/2013 10:55 AM, Josh King wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
> 
>> I've received an email from one of the organizers of a hackathon
>> at Ekoparty (http://ekoparty.org), a security conference taking
>> place in Buenos Airies in concert with the GNU 30th anniversary.
>> Since we are listed as a GNU 30 project, they were interested in
>> possible security-related tasks or bugs in Commotion that could
>> conceivably be tackled as part of a 3-day hackathon.
> 
>> So I'd like to solicit suggestions for items that would be
>> interesting for participants to work on in connection with
>> Commotion so that I can forward that on to the organizers. The
>> sooner we get some suggestions, the more time participants will
>> have to prepare. Thanks!
> 
> 
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Josh King
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