[kwlug-disc] KRACK on WPA2

[Bob Jonkman]

I started the process of updating my OpenWRT routers to LEDE last night.
 I scoured the OpenWRT web site and saw no indication of further updates; looks like abandonware to me.

--Bob 

On October 17, 2017 6:52:25 PM AST, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>On OpenWRT, there is a fix committed to the Chaos Calmer
>branch (latest stable).
>
>https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/555/commits/a1524efd13c52797d0f7492b9835a91598c073dd
>
>But there is no package built after that fix, it you go here and scroll
>down
>to hostapd-common.
>
>https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/base/
>
>See the date?
>
>On the router, running:
>
># opkg update && opkg list-upgradable
>
>Shows no updates, as follows:
>
># opkg list-installed | grep host
>hostapd-common - 2015-03-25-1
>
>So, I dug some more, and it seems that OpenWRT is kind of dormant,
>but there is a successor project called LEDE.
>
>Read the two pages here:
>
>https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=72340
>
>Bottom line: there are packages with the fix for LEDE. For OpenWRT, the
>fix is in the snapshot only, not the Chaos Chalmer (latest stable).
>
>So that means one has to jump to LEDE to get the fix.
>Re-installation is a pain though.
>
>Another thing mentioned in passing in the same thread is that there is
>a reverse
>merge that is planned. That is, anything changed since LEDE forked off
>from
>OpenWRT, will be merged into LEDE, and then the LEDE source repository
>will
>go back into OpenWRT reviving the project again.
>
>So here are the questions:
>
>1. Anyone else using LEDE?
>
>2. If you use OpenWRT, should we wait, rather than install LEDE?


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