Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:13:33 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WPA/TKIP preferred to WPA2/AES ? Message-ID: <ge313d$gou$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <gdo0vj$8t7$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <gdlk40$gq1$1@ger.gmane.org> <48FE6A07.7000507@freebsd.org> <gdo0vj$8t7$1@ger.gmane.org>
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martinko wrote: > Sam Leffler wrote: >> martinko wrote: >>> Hallo, >>> >>> My wireless router has a configuration option to support both WPA / >>> WPA2 at the same time, so when a wireless client cannot talk modern >>> WPA2 it can use old WPA instead. >>> Now it works naturally in Windows and apparently in Symbian too but >>> unfortunately FreeBSD (6.4) picks up WPA and less secure TKIP instead >>> of AES. Would it be possible to amend this behaviour and use better >>> and newer protocols/algorithms/ciphers when available please ? (that >>> is AES preferred to TKIP and WPA2 instead of WPA etc.) >>> >> >> man wpa_supplicant.conf > > Yeah, I could use proto="RSN WPA" but I was wondering whether it > wouldn't be better if the system autoselected the best available > protocol/cipher (if not specified otherwise) which in this case would be > WPA2/CCMP instead of WPA/TKIP. Or is it not desirable for some reasons? > I've checked it with 7.0 and 7.1 and there's an improvement -- both of them autoselected WPA2 but cipher was still TKIP -- it's better than in 6.x yet still not ideal (which would be WPA2/AES-CCM in this case). M.
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