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Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: allows driver to request a Phase 2 key

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>  I haven't looked at what the current implementation does, but as far as
>  WEXT and SIOCSIWENCODEEXT is concerned, IW_ENCODE_EXT_GROUP_KEY flag
>  should be used to select which key is being configured. There is no
>  difference between "static/global" and "dynamic group" keys. The only
>  difference is between default and key-mapping (individual) keys.
>
>  Sure, the terminology here can be quite confusing, but as far as I can
>  tell, that IW_ENCODE_EXT_GROUP_KEY flag is all that is needed to
>  distinguish which key is being configured and configuring a single key
>  should not automatically change another one (even if the key index is
>  same which could, at least in theory, happen with key index 0 that can
>  be used both with default and key-mapping keys).
>

Ok, I tested this flag, this will be enough (AFAIK for the moment) to
distinguish
which key is being configured.
Regarding SIOCSIWENCODE, I understand that there is no need to support it
(at least wrt wpa_supplicant) since mac80211 supports SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
and wpa_supplicant won't send SIOCSIWENCODE if SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
call succeeds right ?

iwconfig sends SIOCSIWENCODE but AFAIK, iwconfig configs only default keys (or
broadcast (default key) as RFC 3580 calls it), so no possibility to be
mistaken here...

Thanks for you help !

>
>
>  --
>  Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
>



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