Mutating State value on every reply
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Dec 11 15:30:13 CET 2012
Phil Mayers wrote:
> Why does the code do this i.e. xor-ing the eap ID etc. with bytes 3,4,5
> of "State"? I'm sure there's a good reason, but I can't figure out what
> it is.
Help with debugging weird issues. If the EAP ID is "hidden" in the
State attribute, we can decode it in later transactions. A misbehaving
client will send the wrong State, and we'll be able to figure out which
transaction it came from.
Alan DeKok.
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