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On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 22:24 +0200, Alexander Wetzel wrote:

> There are quite many interesting things visible here, not the least one
> that ath9k leaks unencrypted frames for both patched and unpatched
> mac80211 which at least for my patched variant probably allow to
> calculate the TK key and encrypt all frames.

That's odd - any thoughts on how that might be happening?


johannes