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Subject: Re: Help tracing NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE as event in IBSS mode
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Cc: Will Hawkins <hawkinsw@opentechinstitute.org>,
	Will Hawkins <hawkinsw@opentechinitiative.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:36:48 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 21:35 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> 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..

Clearly I'm not :-)
Thanks for the explanation.

johannes