On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:11 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:49:14PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Yeah, I was going to propose that on Friday but got side-tracked. What > > would require a new key type? Are there some firmwares that _only_ > > accept the WPA passphrase? Because if there aren't (PS3 accepts WPA hex > > keys too) then the supplicant could just pass the hex key. Not quite > > sure what you mean here with "new key type". > > It is a new key type regardless of whether it is PSK or passphrase. The > current key types (IW_AUTH_CIPHER_*) are WEP40, TKIP, CCMP, and WEP104.. Ah, it's a different key because it's not set _during_ the 4-way handshake, but just sent to the fw directly and the fw handles it, right? > I don't know whether there are any Linux drivers that would use WPA > passphrase, but at least the Mac OS X driver interface seems to only use > passphrase for WPA-Personal, so it is apparently possible to design such > a architecture ;-). Anyway, I would be fine with just adding > IW_AUTH_CIPHER_PMK for now (and the new capability to figure out whether > this is needed). That PMK would be PSK for WPA-Personal, but it could > also be used as PMK for WPA-Enterprise, so the more generic PMK name. Sounds good. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
