Re: [Madwifi-devel] Encrypted Management Frame

[Alex K. <ale...@gm...>]

currently , hostapd 0.6.0 provide basic support of 802.11w(
experimental). Since,for advanced encryption in madwifi  hostapd and
wpa_supplicant are needed, I think you can start from hostapd source.

Aleksey
On 7/17/07, Nazeer Khan <Naz...@ni...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to ask which part of the code does the encryption and decryption of
> data frames. Is it done at the hardware level or driver level?
>
> The management frames are currently unencrypted and i tried a simple test
> in which a station is de-authenticated if i inject a de-authentication
> frame directed to the STA from a monitor mode interface. The station
> starts auth/assoc again. What about the station table in the AP. Because
> the AP never de-authenticated the station?
>
> My primary aim is to introduce some encryption for management frame too. I
> believe IEEE is working in from or 802.11w.
>
> I will be pleased if someone can point me in the right direction that how
> encryption/decryption is done in madwifi?
>
> --
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>
> Nazeer Khan
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