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

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On 31-3-2017 13:50, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

Ok. Just wondering. I am ok with the proposal with the addition of
authorized flag in connect event. So do you expect these to come as
non-rfc patches any time soon?

Regards,
Arend



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