Encryption of Management frames

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Nov 15 02:53:37 PST 2015


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:06:06PM +0000, Hahn, Maital wrote:
> I'm trying to find how management frames (Action frames, to be more specific) 
> are marked for encryption in the Hostap code, and was hoping you can help me.
> 
> I found some reference to this subject in the RX path (under CONFIG_IEEE80211W), but none in the TX path.
> Is it supported?

Yes, but the encryption part is fully handled by the driver (and/or
kernel stack like mac80211).

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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