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Re: d80211: current TKIP hwcrypto implementation seems to be broken

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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 00:53, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:39:31PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> > What happens on RX when the iv32 wraps. Well, it simply won't decrypt
> > the frame. What we must do then is upload a new key as fast as possible.
> > The undecrypted frame can be either decrypted in SW (which I think d80211
> > can do. At least with minor additional changes), or we drop it.
> 
> That "iv32 wrap" should have been "iv32 changes" (phase1 key changes

Yep, I'm sorry. It should be iv32, of course.

> whenever iv16 changes, i.e., when iv32 is incremented by one). d80211
> does indeed support software decryption for this case, so it is fine to
> just pass the undecrypted frame up and marking it as such. This was
> needed for some of the TKIP cases with Atheros.

That's really cool.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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