Re: WPA/TKIP preferred to WPA2/AES ?

martinko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sam Leffler wrote:
> martinko wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> My wireless router has a configuration option to support both WPA / 
>> WPA2 at the same time, so when a wireless client cannot talk modern 
>> WPA2 it can use old WPA instead.
>> Now it works naturally in Windows and apparently in Symbian too but 
>> unfortunately FreeBSD (6.4) picks up WPA and less secure TKIP instead 
>> of AES.  Would it be possible to amend this behaviour and use better 
>> and newer protocols/algorithms/ciphers when available please ?  (that 
>> is AES preferred to TKIP and WPA2 instead of WPA etc.)
>>
> 
> man wpa_supplicant.conf

Yeah, I could use proto="RSN WPA" but I was wondering whether it 
wouldn't be better if the system autoselected the best available 
protocol/cipher (if not specified otherwise) which in this case would be 
WPA2/CCMP instead of WPA/TKIP.  Or is it not desirable for some reasons?

Cheers,

Martin

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