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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: mike@hellotwist.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Validate michael MIC before attempting packet decode.
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 12:44:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494413071.5482.5.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKXXJEzWfNrQxquCzA5dkD5=xCXWyeAC+_yBT35N1oDk-H_Buw@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20170509_201632_574132_3ABEEF43)

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 14:16 -0400, Michael Skeffington wrote:
> In order to allow wpa_supplicant to correctly identify a perceived
> WPA TKIP key
> recovery attack the michael MIC must be checked before the packet
> decode is
> attempted.  A packet with an invalid MIC will always fail a decrypt
> check which
> previously was being checked first.  Therefore the MIC failure bit of
> status flags
> describing the error would remain unset.

This isn't how the Michael MIC works. I have no idea what problem
you're trying to solve, but this is not the solution.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-10 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-09 18:16 [PATCH] mac80211: Validate michael MIC before attempting packet decode Michael Skeffington
2017-05-10 10:44 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-05-10 12:24 ` Jouni Malinen
2017-05-11 20:22   ` Michael Skeffington
2017-05-12  8:52     ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-16 19:57       ` Michael Skeffington
2017-05-16 20:17         ` Johannes Berg

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