Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

From: Jouni Malinen
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 22:13:00 EST


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.

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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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