On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Johannes Berg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:19 +0200, Stefanik Gábor wrote:
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Stefanik Gábor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > One day I was testing monitor-while-operating, with "wlan0" as the
>> > managed interface and "rtap0" as the monitor one, and found an
>> > interesting bug: when I am associated with an AP on wlan0, and try to
>> > receive the same AP's packets through the monitor interface, the
>> > packets arrive in decrypted form, but with the WEP bit still set. This
>> > appears to be a HW-crypto-related bug, though I haven't tested with HW
>> > crypto off. What can cause such a bug?
>
>> Could someone investigate this? I first posted this a month ago, and
>> noone really did anything about it.
>
> It's not a bug, it's a feature. Turn off hardware encryption if it
> bothers you.
>
> johannes
>

I don't think that we should require turning off hardware cryptography
for doing this - one might want to use a managed interface with
hardware cryptography enabled (less code overhead), while getting a
truely-raw dump on a monitor interface simultaneously. This is useful
for wireless IDS, for example.

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