Byzantium/Byzantium — Issue #65: Setting up encryption on wireless gateway interfaces needs to be possible.
Author: virtadpt
Created: 2011-11-19 21:25:44+00:00
State: open
Labels: Control panel, Feature request, Request for comments

This is actually a show stopper at home for testing.

It needs to be possible to configure encryption on wireless interfaces that need it. It isn't a reasonable assumption that wireless access points will not have encryption set on them, and in fact in reality the opposite is true. Doubly so in scenarios derived from the Egypt Problem in which wireless access points are being hunted down and their operators apprehended.

The problem here is that it's easy to configure WEP on a wireless interface with iwconfig, but nontrivial to configure WPA(2). wpa_supplicant is required for that, and it's not actually easy to manipulate.

What we do have is wicd running on every Byzantium node by default because it's part of Porteus Linux. It's written in Python. I think it might be possible to import it as a module into gateways.py and use it to configure encryption on wireless gateway interfaces.