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Re: [RFC v2 2/2] cfg80211: support 4-way handshake offloading for 802.1X

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On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 12:50 +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> 
> So looking at wpa_supplicant RFC patches I see that it now diverts
> driver_nl80211_set_key() for ALG_PMK case to the new api. So why not
> extending CMD_NEW_KEY to support ALG_PMK?

I don't really care what the supplicant does, but IMHO having
completely different types of keys in the same API isn't a good idea.
We'd have to invent (a) cipher suite(s), or new attributes, to even
encapsulate that in netlink - and the usage is completely different
etc.

johannes



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