Comment by Animats
5 hours ago
It's not encryption that's needed. It's authentication. How do you decide who's allowed to join your mesh if it runs on WiFi discovery?
5 hours ago
It's not encryption that's needed. It's authentication. How do you decide who's allowed to join your mesh if it runs on WiFi discovery?
Like others suggested a basic step would be to use a certificate based approach where a company (or basically any deployment) gives out certificates for robots allowed to join and you only communicate with them.
But how do you distribute the certificates? It's cold-starting peer to peer distributed systems that's hard.
When you setup the robots you could load them with the PKI and then load each other robot joining with a signed certificate. Not ideal, I admit.
Another way would be to somehow prove that you belong.
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