<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">This is exactly what VPN is designed for.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The reason public wifi is insecure is that it is shared among everyone. Now if you could build your router to prevent anyone from talking to each other and just the outside world that would have your desired effect. Or maybe a partnership with a VPN provider.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM trent shipley <<a href="mailto:trent.shipley@gmail.com">trent.shipley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building was Terrible!<div><br></div><div>It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable.</div><div><br></div><div>How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. </div><div><br></div><div>When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it again.</div><div><br></div><div>1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user?</div><div>2) If not, how feasible is it?</div><div>3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit coffee house, etc. and RFC?</div><div><br></div><div>Trent</div></div>
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