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Subject: Re: Help tracing NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE as event in IBSS mode
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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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?

johannes