wpa_supplicant PSK question - update

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:16:15PM -0600, Bob Carlson wrote:
> I now see where wpa.c seems to have code for the 4-way handshake. I can
> also see from your list of files that you are referring to the new 0.4.7. I
> am working with 0.3.9, which was the stable one when I started.
> 
> Is there any reason why I should be moving to 0.4.7? I have a lot of work
> invested in the current code, though it's still conceivable to switch.

In general, I would recommend using the latest stable version when
starting a new project. 0.4.x has number of new features and cleanup in
the design that I consider very useful, but of course, you need to take
a look at whether they would be more useful for you than the potential
extra work added in moving from 0.3.x to 0.4.x.

If you want to have access to up-to-date documentation for the
implementation, you should also take into account that 0.3.x is not
documented as thoroughly as 0.4.x is. As far as future support is
concerned, I would guess that 0.4.x will be supported for quite a bit
longer than 0.3.x which may also be a useful thing to keep in mind.

If you will be able to contribute some changes to the open source
version, I would highly recommend doing this based on 0.4.x or even
better from my view point, on current development branch (0.5.x), but
that may not be that good of a choice at this point for a stable
product since it is likely going to get much more changes than 0.4.x.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA