From: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Use sw crypto for GTKs on AP VLAN interfaces
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:52:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011182052.27448.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290099699.3801.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Am Donnerstag 18 November 2010 schrieb Johannes Berg:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:36 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> > That means, broadcast traffic to and from stations associated to an AP
> > VLAN interface is encrypted and decrypted in software whereas broadcast
> > traffic to and from stations associated to the non-VLAN AP interface is
> > encrypted end decrypted in hardware.
>
> Minor nit: bcast traffic from stations is never decrypted by these keys
> since stations never send real bcast frames -- just remove the decyrpted
> part and "from stations" part :-)
Ah, yes, you're right. I'll update the comment accordingly ...
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-18 15:36 [PATCH] mac80211: Use sw crypto for GTKs on AP VLAN interfaces Helmut Schaa
2010-11-18 17:01 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-18 19:21 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-11-18 19:52 ` Helmut Schaa [this message]
2010-11-19 7:11 ` [PATCHv2] mac80211: Disable hw " Helmut Schaa
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