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<div>for the average network user:</div>
<div>There are a lot of protocols and servers that don't use encryption by default. For example most online forums don't use https for sending logon details, and if the "norm" was to use unencrypted wireless logon credentials for a lot of online services could very easily be stolen. Also consider the privicy aspect - you wouldn't want soeone nosy with a sniffer to be able to see all the websites you visit in realtime.
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<div>For the theoretical computer scientist:</div>
<div>end to end encryption between the transport and application layers is much better, just a pity so many services don't use it. After all using wireless encryption still leaves the packets wide open when they're on the internet backbones, just not so many sniffers can see them there.
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<div>As an aside, could governmental and service provider pressue be the reason end to end packet level encryption of everything isn't now standard? (like in the IPv6 spec)</div>
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<div>my main question still stands - is there any mesh-capable hardware out there for purchase?<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 19, 2008 9:29 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <<a href="mailto:jpritikin@pobox.com" target="_blank">jpritikin@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:01:15PM +0000, Oliver Mattos wrote:<br>> Is there any provision in the 802.11s spec for encryption of packet data<br>> only? It would be nice for nodes of another network to be able to forward
<br>> my packets, but not to decrypt their contents, or is that wishfull<br>> thinking?<br><br></div>Just curious, but why would you want to encrypt at the packet level? If<br>I want security then I use ssh, https, or the like.
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