Marriott wifi blocking

Ricky Beam jfbeam at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 21:04:45 UTC 2014


On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:16:22 -0400, Nick Olsen <nick at 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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