Pre-Authentication with WPA.

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Tue May 17 19:59:45 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:30:55PM +0200, roby wrote:

>   I need your help..... Do anybody know if Pre-Authentication can work with 
> WPA? 

Pre-authentication was added in WPA2 and as such, does not work with
WPA.

>   I have a small net with 2 APs based on Hostap. I'm using a 802.1x 
> authentication system based on EAP-TLS and the authentication works fine. Do 
> someone know how I have to set hostapd for make the pre-authentication 
> works? 

If you can use WPA2, that would allow pre-authentication to be used.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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