Re: EAP-TTLS/PAP & dynamic WEP

[Thomas Liebetraut <thomas tommie-lie de>]

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Stefan Schmidt schrieb:
>> click on the SSID to connect, I am prompted for authentication via key
>> or passphrase. My options are WEP 64/128-bit ASCII, WEP 64/128-bit
>> Hex, or WEP 128-bit Passphrase. I don't have a key to give; again, its
>> a EAP-TTLS/PAP auth with dynamic WEP encryption scheme so they keys
>> should be obtained automatically after the authentication.
>
> This happens due the AP only reports WEP encryption. I _guess_ there
> is no way to advertise the dynamic WEP key handling. Such
> advertisement is only posible with the IE from WPA. If I'm wrong here
> please correct me.

This may really be a problem for the UI. If there is no way to figure
out if the WLAN is using 802.1X and 802.1X and WEP appear to be the same
for the software, we would have to extend the WEP connection dialog that
pops up when connecting to an unknown WEP network to also provide the
possibility to select "WPA Enterprise" and "WPA2 Enterprise".
This reduces the user-friendliness and makes it even less possible to
configure a wireless network without any knowledge. It's very
unfortunate that the standards do not provide enough information to be
user-friendly.


Regards,
Thomas

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