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Re: Marriott wifi blocking


From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:04:45 -0400

On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:16:22 -0400, Nick Olsen <nick () flhsi com> wrote:
Side question for those smarter than I. How does WPA encryption play into this? Would a client associated to a WPA2 AP take a non-encrypted
deauth appearing from the same BSSID?

It doesn't. The DEAUTH management frame is not encrypted and carries no
authentication. The 802.11 spec only requires a reason code be provided.

--Ricky


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