Open Wi-Fi Security

Re:Open Wi-Fi Security by tinus_hn on Sunday January 26, 2020 @08:50AM (#22152051)

It would be nice if the standard allowed host names as SSIDs so you could have certificates for them. But it doesn’t.

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Re:Open Wi-Fi Security by Nextgrid on Sunday January 26, 2020 @12:29PM (#22153322)

How would you make that work? How do you prove to the certification authority that you are the rightful owner of a certain SSID? What if a place somewhere else wants to use the same SSID? Who's supposed to decide (and based on what criteria?) who's the "rightful" owner of a particular SSID?

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Re:Open Wi-Fi Security by tinus_hn on Sunday January 26, 2020 @03:51PM (#22154708)

If the SSID is a hostname that’s easy, like it already is for secure websites.

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