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Spacenet has a few advantages, which include:
Spacenet has a few advantages, which include:
* It's more secure, as it's significantly harder for anyone to sniff/monitor your session
* It's more secure, as it's significantly harder for anyone to sniff/monitor your session
* The same conection/credintails can be used at other hackspaces
* The same connection/credentials can be used at other hackspaces


== Connecting ==
== Connecting ==

Revision as of 13:25, 23 January 2016

What is spacenet?

Spacenet is a federated authentication system for secure roaming (wireless) network access across hackerspaces and community events

- Spacenet wiki

Nottingham hackspace has a separate Wifi network - spacenet - which you can log on to using your HMS credentials. These credentials can also be used be used to log on to the wifi network at other Hackspaces that have implemented spacenet.

Purpose

Spacenet has a few advantages, which include:

  • It's more secure, as it's significantly harder for anyone to sniff/monitor your session
  • The same connection/credentials can be used at other hackspaces

Connecting

When connecting to spacenet, your username is <HMS username (in lowercase!)>@nottinghack.org.uk, and your password is your HMS password. Exactly how to connect to spacenet varies a little dependant on OS:

  • Windows 8
  • iOS - short version: pick 'spacenet' network, and enter username="<HMS username>@nottinghack.org.uk>", password="<HMS password>".
  • Linux

Additional OS's are detailed on the spacenet wiki.

Connection details

General connections details - these should be mostly applicable to any OS, although not all details will be required by all OSs.

Username: <HMS username (in lowercase!)>@nottinghack.org.uk
Password: <HMS password>
Security: WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: PEAP
Inner Authentication: MSCHAPv2
Anonymous identity: anonymous@nottinghack.org.uk
Server name: gibson.nottinghack.org.uk
CA certificate - see below (.pem format - may need converting for other OSs)

CA Certificate

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