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Re: rt61pci/rt73usb: Hardware decryption IV/EIV

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> Now there you mention something. Looking at the Legacy driver, they only mention
> ICV during the TX, but never during RX. I did find that the MMIC is appended at the
> end of the frame, which is good, but they never do anything that looks like the
> stripping of the ICV data...
> So I assume it is stripped in the hardware, but no descriptor definition indicates
> a ICV field like there is for IV and EIV. Unless.... they do have a 32bits "reserved" field
> located directly after the IV/EIV fields.. makes one curious if that accidently contains ICV data. ;)

Heh. Maybe the hardware actually does replay protection so it doesn't
matter?

johannes

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