[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#504765: wpasupplicant: Only wpa2-psk keys of less than 64 must be quoted

[Eddy Petrișor]

Kel Modderman a scris:
> On Friday 07 November 2008 10:24:08 Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>> Package: wpasupplicant
>> Version: 0.6.4-2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> When the WPA2 PSK key is of other length than 64 characters, it needs to
>> be quoted, while 64 char psk-s are ok.
> 
> To quote upstream:
> # The key used in WPA-PSK mode can be entered either as 64 hex-digits, i.e.,
> # 32 bytes or as an ASCII passphrase (in which case, the real PSK will be
> # generated using the passphrase and SSID). ASCII passphrase must be between
> # 8 and 63 characters (inclusive).
> 
> The parser recognises quotation marks as something surrounding ascii plaintext
> values, while hex values are not quoted.
> 
>>
>> Please make the behaviour consistent, either by requiering 64 character
>> keys to be qouted, too, or by allowing the other sizes to be unquoted.
> 
> It is consistent in my own opinion.