linux-kernel - Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

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Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:10:20 -0700
From:	Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@...hut.fi>
To:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
	Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>, hostap@...oo.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:27:07PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> 	Let's not make a mountain of this molehill. If you want to use
> old versions of Wireless Tools and wpa_supplicant with WE-21, what you
> need is just to add a dummy character at the end of your ESSID. And
> everything will be fine.

Nope, everything won't be fine with WPA-PSK which is using SSID as part
of the key derivation. In other words, you cannot add a dummy character
in the end of the SSID in wpa_supplicant configuration for a WPA-PSK
network and expect everything to work.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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