wpa_supplicant in adhoc WPA-PSK mode

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sat Jan 16 02:42:07 EST 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:12:02PM -0600, LAMBA Jaideep wrote:

> Jouni: I can commit some time to driver development so 4-way handshake
> and related security features and wpa_supplicant work with it. Can you
> briefly explain what we are missing in drivers before I start digging
> in. Also is there a preferred driver that is better suited to this
> purpose ??

The main missing part is support for multiple GTKs (i.e., one group key
for each peer to receive broadcast/multicast frames from it) and
testing. Getting support for this into nl80211 and mac80211 would be a
good start in allowing many drivers to use this.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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