Re: [PATCH] wpa_supplicant: Send EAPoL-Key frames over NL80211 where available

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On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 09:07 +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> 
> My understanding is that the only reason to explicitly disable encryption for
> EAPoL is to workaround the race conditions.

Oh. Yes, maybe we wanted to be able to do something like

 1) install key
 2) send EAPOL frame(s)

in that order, but still send the frames unencrypted even though the key
is already available.

But if we actually were to do that, would it break your scheme?

johannes


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