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Re: Help tracing NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE as event in IBSS mode

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:56:28PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 20:55 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> 
> > @johannes: de-duplication? IBSS/RSN assumes that each node runs an authenticator
> > and a supplicant. Does this mean that we need exactly two 4-way handshakes? Why
> > should we have a "winner"?
> 
> I may misremember, I thought we didn't need two handshakes. But maybe we
> do, and just throw away one of the PTKs?

You are the expert here eheh.. but after having conducted 2 different 4-way
handshakes, the pairwise key of the STA with the greater MAC address is used.

Ok we are going OT :-) but you can check wpa_supplicant/ibss_rsn.c:282 and
section 11.5.13 of 802.11-2012.

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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