Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:04:03 +0200 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WPA/TKIP preferred to WPA2/AES ? Message-ID: <gdo0vj$8t7$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <48FE6A07.7000507@freebsd.org> References: <gdlk40$gq1$1@ger.gmane.org> <48FE6A07.7000507@freebsd.org>
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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? Cheers, Martin
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