Hello. On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 11:00, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > 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. > > WEP is entirely broken in this regard. You cannot figure out > Open/Shared Key auth either from the beacon, the user has to know this. > You also cannot know the format of the Passphrase->Key hashing with WEP, > because there are 40 and 104-bit variants of each of the following: hex, > ascii, passphrase. OK, so I remembered this correctly. > In short, we need a way to do phase2 and make stuff like dynamic WEP > more apparent, but we need to do it in a way that doesn't break existing > stuff and that's at least mildly usable. ACK. I hope I can start to look at it in the next week. regards Stefan Schmidt
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