From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Optional software CCMP for management frames
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:08:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231330118.3545.28.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107112707.370907962@atheros.com>
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On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 13:23 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> plain text document attachment (ieee80211w-sw-mgmt-ccmp.patch)
> If driver/firmware/hardware does not support CCMP for management
> frames, it can now request mac80211 to take care of encryption and
> decryption of management frames (when MFP is enabled) in software. The
> driver will need to add this new IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_SW_MGMT flag when a
> CCMP key is being configured for TX side and return the encrypted frames
> on RX side without RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED flag to use software CCMP for
> management frames (but hardware for data frames).
Wouldn't it be better to invert the meaning of the flag so we don't have
to update all drivers now? It's likely that people won't test CCMP hw
encryption and also that it won't work, I'd think, no?
johannes
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-07 11:23 [PATCH 00/14] mac80211: IEEE 802.11w (management frame protection) Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 01/14] mac80211: 802.11w - STA flag for MFP Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 02/14] mac80211: 802.11w - CCMP for management frames Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 03/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC) Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 04/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Use " Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 05/14] mac80211: 802.11w - WEXT parameter for setting mgmt cipher Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 06/14] mac80211: 802.11w - WEXT configuration for IGTK Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 07/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Configuration of MFP disabled/optional/required Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 08/14] mac80211: 802.11w - SA Query processing Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 09/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Do not force Action frames to disable encryption Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 10/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Drop unprotected robust management frames if MFP is used Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 11/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Implement Association Comeback processing Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 12/14] mac80211: 802.11w - Optional software CCMP for management frames Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 12:08 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-01-07 12:24 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 12:47 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-07 14:09 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 15:09 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-07 15:30 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 15:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-07 16:33 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 16:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-08 9:57 ` Helmut Schaa
2009-01-08 10:48 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-08 12:08 ` Helmut Schaa
2009-01-08 12:18 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-08 12:25 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-08 12:29 ` Helmut Schaa
[not found] ` <226823.3656.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
2009-01-08 12:44 ` [patch] vif_conf.patch failed to patch git wireless-testing (07-01-2009) Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:23 ` [PATCH 13/14] ath9k: Fix set_key error codes Jouni Malinen
2009-01-07 11:24 ` [PATCH 14/14] ath9k: Setup MFP options for CCMP Jouni Malinen
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