Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] nl80211: Introduce
 NL80211_MESH_SETUP_USERSPACE_AMPE
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 18:34:32 +0200
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On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:32 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 16:57 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
> >
> >> These patches introduce support for Authenticated Mesh Peering Exchange
> >> in userspace.  The userspace daemon implements the AMPE protocol and on
> >> successfull completion create mesh peers and install encryption keys.
> >
> > Do all combinations make sense? I mean, I can sort of see that you can
> > have authenticated but unsecured, but secured and unauthenticated?
> 
> Probably not.  I'm not 100% sure.

I was just wondering if it should be allowed at all.

johannes