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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal patch for TKIP/CCMP Ext.IV parsing (IEEE 802.11i)

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:46:49 -0700
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:46:49PM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> The attached patch adds alternative parsing for WEP IV field when the
> Extended IV bit is set.

Checked in.

> This is used for TKIP and CCMP. However, the
> packet data itself does not indicate which encryption algorithm was used,
> so the changes here will display both TKIP and CCMP versions (they have
> some byte order changes) if the IV data is not enough to determine which
> algorithm was used.

You might want to add a preference setting for that.