On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:49:14PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Yeah, I was going to propose that on Friday but got side-tracked. What > would require a new key type? Are there some firmwares that _only_ > accept the WPA passphrase? Because if there aren't (PS3 accepts WPA hex > keys too) then the supplicant could just pass the hex key. Not quite > sure what you mean here with "new key type".
It is a new key type regardless of whether it is PSK or passphrase. The current key types (IW_AUTH_CIPHER_*) are WEP40, TKIP, CCMP, and WEP104.. I don't know whether there are any Linux drivers that would use WPA passphrase, but at least the Mac OS X driver interface seems to only use passphrase for WPA-Personal, so it is apparently possible to design such a architecture ;-). Anyway, I would be fine with just adding IW_AUTH_CIPHER_PMK for now (and the new capability to figure out whether this is needed). That PMK would be PSK for WPA-Personal, but it could also be used as PMK for WPA-Enterprise, so the more generic PMK name. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
