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Subject: Re: WPA/TKIP preferred to WPA2/AES ?
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martinko wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> My wireless router has a configuration option to support both WPA / 
> WPA2 at the same time, so when a wireless client cannot talk modern 
> WPA2 it can use old WPA instead.
> Now it works naturally in Windows and apparently in Symbian too but 
> unfortunately FreeBSD (6.4) picks up WPA and less secure TKIP instead 
> of AES.  Would it be possible to amend this behaviour and use better 
> and newer protocols/algorithms/ciphers when available please ?  (that 
> is AES preferred to TKIP and WPA2 instead of WPA etc.)
>

man wpa_supplicant.conf