[Commotion-dev] GNU 30 Hackday Commotion Security Tasks

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

What might also be possible and valuable is to create the suite of test
cases that show up where wpa_supplicant (or any other thing of interest, eg
IBSS-RSN) fails, so that it can be objectively addressed in future,
including by volunteers on an ad-hoc basis, since they will have a clear
guide to work to.

Paul.


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Jordan McCarthy <
mccarthy at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

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> 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
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> Jordan McCarthy
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> 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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