Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Fix for bug 1420 (properly decrypting WPA broadcast packets)

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:57:14 -0600
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:50:47PM -0400, Brian Stormont wrote:

> I've implemented a fix for bug 1420 (802.11 WPA/WPA2-PSK Unable to 
> decode Group Keys). This addresses the problem of not being able to 
> properly decrypt WPA and WPA2 packets that were encrypted with the 
> group key (i.e key index = 1).

Great!

> Being new to the Wireshark group, before submitting the actual changes 
> I figured I'd check to see if anyone else has already been working on 
> this (the bug had been reported over a year ago!).  The code changes 
> are restricted to airpdcap.c and airpdcap_tkip.c in epan/crypt.

I don't know of anyone else working on a fix.  Go ahead and attach your 
patch to bug #1420 and change the option of review_for_checkin to ? so 
we can review it for inclusion.


Steve