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Date:   Sun, 24 May 2020 13:17:51 +0200
From:   Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
To:     Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rt2800lib: unconditionally enable MFP
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On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:47:31AM +0100, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> According to Larry [1] (and successfully verified on b43) mac80211
> transparently falls back to software for unsupported hardware cyphers. Thus,
> there's no reason for not unconditionally enabling MFP. This gives us WPA3
> support out of the box, without having to manually disable hardware crypto.
> 
> Tested on an RT2790-based Wi-Fi card.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/8252e6a1-b83c-64eb-2503-2686374216ae@lwfinger.net/

AFICT more work need to be done to support MFP by HW encryption properly
on rt2x00. See this message and whole thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/977a3cf4-3ec5-4aaa-b3d4-eea2e8593652@nbd.name/

Stanislaw