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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove shared key todo

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On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:19 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 20:55 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Adding shared key authentication is not going to happen anyway.
> 
> +1; I've _never_ heard or seen anyone using Shared Key auth with adhoc.
> How would that work anyway, given that there's no AP to send you the
> challenge text?  Just auth against some random peer?

I have no idea. Usually, you don't even do open auth for IBSS, there's
just no point. Unless you get into IBSS with encryption, but we don't
really support that yet, and we probably never will actually support
that without the userspace MLME in wpa supplicant.

johannes

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