Comment 25 for bug 34982

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote : Re: [Bug 34982] Re: Please apply the EAP-FAST from the wpasupplicant source

Adrian Quek <email address hidden> writes:

> I have not tried to reference the discussion with the openssl folks as
> it has already been reported.

That's the reference I'm asking for.

> But what I think is that it would be only be available for 0.9.9
> release. However there is there's no release date and no indication as
> to how long will it take.

On what basis do you make this guess?

> I do understand that it is an overhead for maintaining the extra
> packages. I also do not know what overheads are required, so if it is
> too much to ask for, then I accept that.

This problem does not only affect ubuntu, but every distribution that
uses tools like wpa_supplicant and network-manager. Please let's try to
get this issue fixed at the right place: Openssl upstream.

> I was not trying to overexaggerate, what I meant was enterprise
> environments which ONLY use EAP-FAST protocol for authenticating to
> wireless. Without the patch, there doesn't seem to be any other way to
> get that to work.

That is indeed correct.

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