Re: [Patch v9 11/16] wpa_supplicant: Support Extended Key ID

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On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 11:10:10PM +0100, Alexander Wetzel wrote:
> Support Extended Key ID in wpa_supplicant according to
> IEEE 802.11-2016 for infrastructure (AP) associations.
> 
> Extended Key ID allows to rekey pairwise keys without the otherwise
> unavoidable MPDU losses on a busy link. The standard is fully backward
> compatible, allowing STAs to also connect to APs not supporting it.

Same here for the station side default behavior.. I do not want to get
to a point where deployed stations end up being unable to work with an
AP if an AP vendor comes up with differently working implementation of
this in the future since there has been no interoperability testing of
this capability so far.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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