From mike at saywell.net  Sun Feb 15 19:35:44 2004
From: mike at saywell.net (Mike Saywell)
Date: Sun Feb 15 19:37:14 2004
Subject: [Consume-nodes] SOWN-1x Project
Message-ID: <20040215193544.GM1290@saywell.net>

Hi all,

SOWN has been working on a project aimed at enabling community based
802.1x authentication which some of you may find interesting.

In a nutshell we're running a RADIUS server which allows you to define
groups of people who can authenticate on your access point.  A group can
range from friends and family to the entire of consume.

It's all managed through a web front end: http://auth.sown.org.uk/

The motivations are two fold, firstly to have a system which makes
sharing your access point as safe as possible - or at least a good deal
safer than it is to run it open.  And secondly for it not to require
that every house has a Linux box running web proxy, nocat etc etc.

The whole system is quite young at the moment, however has proven to be
stable over the past few months.  There are is all sorts of additional
functionality in the pipeline, especially with logging and helping to
validate somebody's identity.

So anyway, if you'd like to play with 802.1x, or you think this would be
a useful thing for you wireless group please give it a try.  There are
lots more details on the website.

Cheers,

Mike Saywell

SOWN - Southampton Open Wireless Network
http://www.sown.org.uk