[OE-core] wpa-supplicant & EAP-TLS

Henning Heinold heinold at inf.fu-berlin.de
Tue Aug 14 13:59:47 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:52:32AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-08-14 05:46, Phil Blundell wrote:
> >On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 05:44 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>Does anyone know why the recipe for wpa_supplicant is using gnutls
> >>and not the default OpenSSH for TLS services?  It seems that gnutls
> >>is somehow broken and EAP-TLS does not work with this configuration.
> >>Changing wpa_supplicant to use the OpenSSH libraries makes EAP-TLS
> >>work fine.
> >>
> >>Would a patch to make this change be entertained?  or should I just
> >>keep it in my own layer?
> >
> >I don't think a patch to just flip the default would be a good idea.  A
> >patch to make it be a DISTRO_FEATURE, on the other hand, would be
> >excellent.
> 
> Thanks, I'll see about working one up.

Btw. You mean openssl not openssh, which uses openssl too.

And a problem with using openssl for wpa_supplicant was license incompatibilities.

Mabyee it is fixed meanwhile.

Bye Henning




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