peer to peer wireless WAN?

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Thu Aug 9 13:53:34 PDT 2001




On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Matt Beland wrote:

>802.11b, 11Mb/sec, up to 15 mile range with the right
>antennae, no licensing costs. Sound good enough?

Obviously not.  Have you even been reading the news lately?

Although fixing the 802.11b protocol might be a good cypherpunkish 
undertaking (for those who still write code).  802.11c, anyone?

It looks like it ought to be pretty simple.  Just substitute AES 
for RC4 and go.  The problem as usual is key distribution.

			Bear






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