Tue May 27, 2014 1:07 pm
through my experience with wireless networks and having faced problems like rogue access points with spoofed mac addresses and ssid as the legitimate ones i wonder if could be implemented a new feature of secure ssid with public (client) and private (access point) key for open hotspot networks. of course the wifi system needs to be upgraded too as the network managers of various os (windows,linux) will support ssid certification method witch will occur likely during assosiation with an access point. the first time someone connects to a "secure" ssid will ask user to continue and save the access point certificate.. if a rogue access point appears with same ssid,mac while user tries to connect will popup warning message that the key does match the saved one so a user will understand that this is not the same access point... like htts but not encrypting traffic cause of open network only ssid name certification. this is just my wonder and is not mikrotik specific and if is possible to be implemented the whole wireless system has to change (access points, clients).