SAE password and wildcard address

Nicolas Cavallari Nicolas.Cavallari at green-communications.fr
Mon Jan 22 00:14:54 PST 2024


On 21/01/2024 22:19, roshii wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A common use case for wpa_psk_file is VLAN ID assignment based on password, using the catch-all mac address 00:00:00:00:00:00.
> This is however not possible with sae_password_file since only the last matching entry is considered valid. And since password identifier is not supported in most client it prevents WPA3 to be used when a VLAN ID needs to be assign in function of password.
> 
> Is this an intended feature?
> Can hostap be amended somehow?

It was already a hack in WPA1/WPA2 and now it's kind-of impossible to do with 
the SAE protocol.




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