Wireless question for wonks!
This may not be the right forum but I'm pretty certain you folks in here can answer it.
Yesterday a friend and I are in a coffee bar and she whips out her TiBook and gets on the web using the bar's wireless network. We start talking about how insecure the connection is and various ways around it and this perfectly reasonable idea came up and we were wondering why two goons in a coffee shop would think of this and it hadn't already been implemented somewhere. So here goes.
Is there any reason that you couldn't implement a wireless network using ssh public/private keys and portforward port 80, 25, etc?
Or, since you could set up a nice little app to handle the settings and key gen and negotiation and so forth and make it pretty transparent to the end user, why hasn't some company made an appliance that does this? It would quelch all the ********** and insecurity questions around wireless and seems like you could embed openssh and linux to make it an appliance.
Is the processor load too high?
Cost prohibitive?
Are we out of our minds?
Should I patent this idea and go find a VC somewhere?
Just wondering.
