Re: passphrase/psk in wps cred handling in hostapd and wpa_supplicant

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HIi,

thanks for the prompt reply.

> Providing PSK to the Enrollees is the preferred option if the Enrollee
> is known not to have use for the passphrase (e.g., share it with another
> device) since use of PSK instead of passphrase saves CPU. The original
> reason for this design was to use the device capabilities (whether the
> Enrollee indicates it has a display), but the main current use is in
> preferring to use PSK for all the P2P cases since the passphrase is
> likely to be a random temporary value for the group. The changes here
> would seem to break that design.
I see. Eventually I need to pass the passphrase in my case :|. I guess
I will need to use hostapd then.
In P2P cases, is there an ASCII passphrase specified? Temporary values
aren't always psks?

Regards,
Viktor

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