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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/2] cfg80211: support 4-way handshake offloading for 802.1X
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:50:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1490961001.6288.8.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5274c4b4-9bce-208c-e3f2-640d54b81a30@broadcom.com> (sfid-20170328_125041_391430_D9B7273C)

On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 12:50 +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> 
> So looking at wpa_supplicant RFC patches I see that it now diverts
> driver_nl80211_set_key() for ALG_PMK case to the new api. So why not
> extending CMD_NEW_KEY to support ALG_PMK?

I don't really care what the supplicant does, but IMHO having
completely different types of keys in the same API isn't a good idea.
We'd have to invent (a) cipher suite(s), or new attributes, to even
encapsulate that in netlink - and the usage is completely different
etc.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-31 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-21 12:37 [RFC v2 1/2] cfg80211: support 4-way handshake offloading for WPA/WPA2-PSK Johannes Berg
2017-02-21 12:37 ` [RFC v2 2/2] cfg80211: support 4-way handshake offloading for 802.1X Johannes Berg
2017-02-24  8:08   ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-03-02  8:59     ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-02 10:50       ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-03-28 10:50   ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-03-31 11:50     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-03-31 12:39       ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-03-31 12:42         ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-31 18:40           ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-02-21 14:43 ` [RFC v2 1/2] cfg80211: support 4-way handshake offloading for WPA/WPA2-PSK Jouni Malinen
2017-02-21 14:46   ` Johannes Berg
2017-02-21 14:47     ` Johannes Berg
2017-02-23  9:56       ` Arend Van Spriel

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