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>  I thought the DHCP broadcast ought to be encrypted with the broadcast
>  key (=keyidx 2)?? But its encrypted with the unicast key (keyidx 3). Or
>  am I really confused here? Please let me know if you have any ideas to
>  fix this!
>

Nope, a station never encrypts with broadcast key, it always encrypts
to the AP: RA = MAC of the AP, and TA = broadcast MAC.
So the key used for encryption of broadcast packet should be the
unicast key. The broadcast key is useful for RX only.

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Emmanuel Grumbach
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