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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:48:53 +0300
From: "Emmanuel Grumbach" <egrumbach@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: 11n + wpa_supplicant
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:41 +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  I would think that, indeed, it *is* its job since its job is
>  > >  key/algorithm selection and 11n limits the choices.
>  > >
>  >
>  > depends on priorities, maybe the security selection should limit the
>  > 11n... IMHO, security should be in higher priority since the user
>  > explicitly said he wants TKIP
>  >
>  > >  How about we simply put the 11n information element into the generic IE
>  > >  and have mac80211 use that?
>  > >
>  >
>  > in mac80211 we perfectly know what the AP supports (in
>  > ieee80211_send_assoc, I can read the IEs from the AP) , that's no the
>  > issue here, the issue is what security alg the user will chose in the
>  > 4way. This decision affects the associate even though it occurs after
>  > the association
>
>  Ah, so you mean if the user chose TKIP then we should associate as a
>  legacy STA?
>

I think so... If the AP is N-only we would be in trouble...

>  johannes
>


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Emmanuel Grumbach
egrumbach@gmail.com