Wifi on Pi RISC OS

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Question for people using RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi: what’s the state of wifi?

Our man in India (Bera, who writes articles about hardware projects)
is asking. He says he tried running Ro on a Pi a couple of years ago,
liked it except that he failed to surmount the wifi barrier.
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Ah, yes, another cross platform exploit(WPA2 KRACK) that doesn’t have an effect on RISC OS because the feature doesn’t exist.
Pro’s and cons, pro’s and con’s.

WPA2 KRACK

Well, what do you expect when you’re talking about a protocol designed by committee and subject to restricted (for a fee) publication? Peer review is of dubious quality and by the time somebody gets around to discovering a flaw, it’s baked into hardware and too damn late.

No, seriously, look at the track record. WEP is crap. WPA was also crap because they kept TKIP. When that was ditched for WPA2/AES we thought we could breathe a sigh of relief, but apparently not. And then we have the mother of all ****ups, the lovely WPS. Otherwise known as “stupid long security key is complicated I want something simple”, and simple you got. An eight digit security key that is solvable in a maximum of 11,000 attempts. How? Easy. The last number is a check number. Then the key is authenticated in two halves, the first four digits and then the remaining three. The protocol requires the authentication to be aborted as soon as something is wrong, so an attacker can try 0001000x and if that fails you automatically know that 0001000x to 0001999x are not the right choice. Repeat for a maximum of 10,000 attempts. Then it’s a maximum of 1,000 attempts to get the remaining three digits. WPS on a router is like having a dead bolt door with the key sellotaped to the outside.

Yay for designed by committee…

That said, a person probably shouldn’t be relying on just one thing being “secure”, but rather work on the assumption that it probably isn’t.

That said, a person probably shouldn’t be relying on just one thing being “secure”, but rather work on the assumption that it probably isn’t.

Perfect, we’re doing something right:- assuming RO isn’t secure, and it definitely isn’t so we have the right viewpoint.
Something not quite right there…

Question for people using RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi: what’s the state of wifi?

Pi wifi comes in step 3 (of 4) of the new network stack that is gathering donations

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/09/wi_fi_wpa3/