[PATCH 1/6] wpa_supplicant: Replace MITM with PITM.

Arowa Suliman arowa at chromium.org
Tue Jun 22 17:31:20 PDT 2021


Replace man-in-the-middle with person-in-the-middle which
is gender-neutral.

Signed-off-by: Arowa Suliman <arowa at chromium.org>
---
 hostapd/hostapd.conf               | 2 +-
 wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hostapd/hostapd.conf b/hostapd/hostapd.conf
index b5d15061f..b027be3e3 100644
--- a/hostapd/hostapd.conf
+++ b/hostapd/hostapd.conf
@@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ own_ip_addr=127.0.0.1
 #assoc_sa_query_retry_timeout=201
 
 # ocv: Operating Channel Validation
-# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel man-in-the-middle attacks.
+# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel person-in-the-middle attacks.
 # Enabling this depends on the driver's support for OCV when the driver SME is
 # used. If hostapd SME is used, this will be enabled just based on this
 # configuration.
diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf b/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
index e3ae77114..702862bec 100644
--- a/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ fast_reauth=1
 # WPA3-Personal-only mode: ieee80211w=2 and key_mgmt=SAE
 #
 # ocv: whether operating channel validation is enabled
-# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel man-in-the-middle attacks.
+# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel person-in-the-middle attacks.
 # Enabling this automatically also enables ieee80211w, if not yet enabled.
 # 0 = disabled (default)
 # 1 = enabled if wpa_supplicant's SME in use. Otherwise enabled only when the
-- 
2.32.0.288.g62a8d224e6-goog




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