Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-25 Thread Charles N Wyble
Well yes. :) Plenty of relatively inexpensive x86 based kit out there. Maybe with TPM? Never looked. Atom can push a good amount of packets. I am in the process of building an HCL for the various bits of the FreedomStack. (CPE/distribution/core etc). My family is a very heavy internet user.

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:11:29 -0500, char...@thefnf.org said: > On 2014-07-25 12:22, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > The second big challenge is that to the best of my knowledge, there exist > > no router-class hardware that includes a TPM chip, > > OpenWRT x86? Run it on a decently specced lapto

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-25 Thread charles
On 2014-07-25 12:22, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:06:38 -0700, George Herbert said: Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts? If they are as determined as FBI v Scarfo (the FBI pulled a black bag job to install a keystroke logger in

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:06:38 -0700, George Herbert said: > Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts? If they are as determined as FBI v Scarfo (the FBI pulled a black bag job to install a keystroke logger in a mobster's PC to capture his PGP passphrase), it's pr

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-25 Thread charles
On 2014-07-25 00:06, George Herbert wrote: Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts? Interesting question. It uses OpenWRT as a base. IPTables for the firewall. So that's a pretty big code base right there (though certainly a bit less than a comparable x86

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-24 Thread George Herbert
Any idea how well CeroWRT stands up to nation-state level intrusion efforts? George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:24 AM, char...@thefnf.org wrote: > >> On 2014-07-24 12:04, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: >> So the EFF is pushing development of an open CPU router >> htt

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-24 Thread charles
On 2014-07-24 12:04, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: So the EFF is pushing development of an open CPU router https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router https://openwireless.org/ It's currently targeting WNDR3800's and based on the CeroWRT software (which works pretty well in my

Re: EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-24 Thread Livingood, Jason
On 7/24/14, 1:04 PM, "Valdis Kletnieks" wrote: >It's currently targeting WNDR3800's and based on the CeroWRT software >(which works pretty well in my own experience). Agree - CeroWRT works well. We at Comcast worked with Dave Taht on CeroWRT to explore and understand approaches to resolving Buff

EFF gets into the CPE router software business..

2014-07-24 Thread Valdis Kletnieks
So the EFF is pushing development of an open CPU router https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router https://openwireless.org/ It's currently targeting WNDR3800's and based on the CeroWRT software (which works pretty well in my own experience). What will possibly be intere