wpa_supplicant, WPA, PSK, TKIP, and a 104 bits key

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Oct 6 11:14:56 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:01 +0200, Sorin Manolache wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 14:39, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 03:01:29PM +0200, Sorin Manolache wrote:
> >
> >> authentication suite. They gave me a 26-char hex (104-bit) string. How
> >> do you configure WPA supplicant to work with this string? To me it
> >> looks like a WEP key, but I'm positive that the protocol is WPA and
> >> not WEP.
> >
> >> I've tried setting psk=the-26-char-key in wpa_supplicant.conf, it does
> >> not work.
> >
> > My guess would be that the key is used as a WPA passphrase even if it
> > looks like a hex key. In other words, it would be psk="the-26-char-key"
> > (i.e., with quotation marks).
> 
> Thank you Jouni. Unfortunately it does not work, I've tried it.

What is the 'iwlist <interface> scan' output for that access point?

Dan



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