Rraspberry PI - HSMM MESH and Security

Is there a reason why I don't see any mention of any wireless security methods/protocols?

without having wifi security, anyone within range can get onto my network.

ANSWER

First, this sets up the Pi as a mesh node, not an access point, so it's purpose is connect node devices to each other, not to client devices - connecting to WAN in this setup requires an ethernet connection to a node running in internal mode. Second, while setting up WPA protection isn't necessarily difficult to do here (manually editing the pi's wireless config), hsmm software does not provide this option in the gui, because technically speaking encryption is not allowed for any ham networks per the FCC. The author of this does provide a hex key setting to restrict other nodes from automatically joining though.


Hopefully you will find some useful information here.
 
https://groups.io/g/AREDN
https://aredn.blogspot.com/