PROJECT MAYHEM LABS: Hermes Scalable Mesh Network

Hermes Scalable Mesh Network
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WIFI
1.2 mile range per node
Up to 100km Range between cells with UHF modem extension bridge
Redundant & Scalable
Raspberry Pi 2 based
300Mbps
WPA2 TKIP/AES, WPA2-PSK wireless network encryption
OpenSSL encrypted point to point

Modular Supercapacitor UPS unit (up too 8 hours.)
Modular Solar Power unit (up too 3 days without sunlight.)

ByzPi: Ad-hoc wireless mesh networking for the zombie apocalypse.

https://n0where.net/byzpi/
http://byzantium.github.io/ByzPi/
http://project-byzantium.org/faqs/

Make it possible for people in emergency situations to communicate and collaborate.
Make it possible for people in areas where the communications infrastructure is compromised to communicate and collaborate.
Provide services to support communication and collaboration.
Will be secure out of the box.
- Best practices for isolating running services will be followed.
- Best practices for configuration web applications will be followed.
- Least privilege will be followed wherever possible.
Will be extensively documented.
- A Creative Commons-licensed book will be made available with the Byzantium distribution as well as separately
- Will explain the finer points of setting up a mesh, as well as accompanying projects (such as dialup gateways and long-haul transports).
- Will be translated into as many languages as possible.
Widely compatible.
- Users need to be able to boot their desktop/laptop/netbook from Byzantium media and set up a node.
- As little fiddling with network drivers as possible.
Rapidly deployable.
- Users need to be able to configure their Byzantium node rapidly and with little assistance.
- Emergency situations.
- Control panel aims to be as self-documenting as possible.
Aims to protect confidentiality of traffic.
- Opportunistic IPsec?
- All services default to SSLv3/TLSv1.
Aims to protect integrity of traffic.
- SSLv3/TLSv1.
Meshes should grow without the direction of a central authority.
- Anyone can set up a mesh node.
- Anyone can set up services on the mesh.
- Services packaged by default can be managed (activated and deactivated) from the control panel
- Services packaged by default will come preconfigured with secure defaults and a mobile-friendly theme where appropriate.
- This is a calculated risk. The threat models of Tor and I2P take this into account as well.
Byzantium nodes need to be rapidly clonable.
- One copy of the live distribution needs to become many on demand.
- Nodes need to be clonable without taking the node down.

Features

Can support multiple mesh routing protocols.
Modular configuration back end.
Multiple pre-packaged, pre-configured web applications for communication and collaboration.
All services can be independently activated and deactivated.
Aims for security by default.
- Services are not active unless explicitly triggered.
- Services are configured using best practices for security.
- Services support strong cryptography by default.
Supports gatewaying from the mesh to the Net over a live connection.
Supports persistent (encrypted) storage on demand (not default).
- Note: When creating a save.dat file under Porteus, if the drive it's on is formatted FAT-32 or less, the file MUST be <1024MB, else, the /linuxrc script that forms the core of the distro will pretend that it can't locate the file, regardless of where you put it. This drove me bonkers for two months!
  - If possible we should try to make save.dat a second partition on the thumbdrive (ala casper-rw for ubuntu liveUSBs) there are some big benefits to this:
    - it makes it harder for windows users to see that there is a second partition in case big brother decides to inspect the contents of all thumbdrives.
    - it means we won't have to worry about file size limits.

http://linuxfreedom.com/byzantium/

Raspbian
Stunnel
Firehol
Fail2ban
Samhain
Vnc-server
Monowall
Freeradius
Cronjob
Perl

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Raspberry Pi 2
Model B 1GB
$35
http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi

Patriot Signature Flash 32GB Secure Digital High-Capacity
$12.99
http://www.frys.com/product/5821363?

POWERLINK 1.2 mile range PL-2812-300N Outdoor Plus II Ultra Long Distance Indoor Outdoor WLAN 300Mbps Wireless USB - POWERLINK - PL-2812-300N
$34.99x2
70
http://www.rakuten.com/prod/powerlink-pl-2812-300n-outdoor-plus-ii-ultra-long-distance-indoor/271111287.html?

Raspberry Pi 2 Metal Case Black
$17.00
http://www.amazon.com/Eleduino-Raspberry-Model-Metal-Black/dp/B00SX2JO4K/ref=pd_sim_sbs_pc_3?

$135
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SUPERCAP AVX BZ12GA124ZAB
$57.70
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/AVX/BZ12GA124ZAB/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMuDCPMZUZ%252bYl43ojdqvXYZ%2fY%252bg5RjjR3nM%3d

$193
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ECO-WORTHY100 W Polycrystalline Solar Panel With 15A Solar Controller
$140.00
http://www.eco-worthy.com/catalog/worthy100-polycrystalline-solar-panel-with-solar-controller-p-298.html

Universal 12v 90 AH Deep Cycle Sealed AGM Battery UB12900-45826
$143.99
http://www.batterystuff.com/batteries/upc-telecom/UB12900-45826.html

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Monowall BSD firewall & Raspbian bizpi endpoints
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Raspberry Pi 2
Model B 1GB
$35x2
70
http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi

Rosewill RNG-406U - Ethernet Adapter 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps USB 3.0 1 x RJ45
$29.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166088&cm_re=rosewill_rj45_usb_1000-_-33-166-088-_-Product

Patriot Signature Flash 32GB Secure Digital High-Capacity
$12.99x2
26
http://www.frys.com/product/5821363?

Case Box Enclosure 2-layer Dog Bone Stack Case
$24.99
http://www.amazon.com/GeauxRobot-Raspberry-Enclosure-2-layer-Stack/dp/B00NU70MZS/ref=sr_1_1?

$221
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SUPERCAP AVX BZ12GA124ZAB
$57.70x2
120
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/AVX/BZ12GA124ZAB/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMuDCPMZUZ%252bYl43ojdqvXYZ%2fY%252bg5RjjR3nM%3d

$316
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ECO-WORTHY100 W Polycrystalline Solar Panel With 15A Solar Controller
$140.00
http://www.eco-worthy.com/catalog/worthy100-polycrystalline-solar-panel-with-solar-controller-p-298.html

S3 Waterproof Box – T6000
$65.95
http://salamanderpaddlegear.com/product/s3-waterproof-box-t6000

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For long range bridges.