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

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From: Motonori Shindo <mshindo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:22:24 +0900 (JST)
From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal patch for TKIP/CCMP Ext.IV parsing (IEEE 802.11i)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:46:49 -0700

> > 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.

Or even better, it's nice to remember which cipher suites was selected
in the association phase using "conversation" and decode the field
accordingly:-)