hi,

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 11:09 AM Clemens Lang <cll...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > On 19. Nov 2024, at 17:47, Arthur Bols <art...@bols.dev> wrote:
> >
> > A few days ago pkcs11-provider-0.5-3.fc41 update was pushed to Fedora 41. 
> > Unfortunately, this update breaks eduroam and possibly many other 
> > WPA2-Enterprise wifi networks. There are multiple threads on Fedora 
> > Discussion, mainly [0], and a bug report [1].
> >
> > I understand that the maintainers implemented this change with the best 
> > intentions, however, could someone clarify why this provider was enabled so 
> > abruptly in this update? Wouldn’t such a change typically require a change 
> > proposal? Given how many users are affected, would it make sense to 
> > consider rolling back the update until there’s a fix?
>
> I think the bug can be fixed in wpa_supplicant, but until that happens, users 
> should just uninstall pkcs11-provider.
>
> The idea here was to auto-enable pkcs11-provider when it is installed, which 
> still makes sense to me. The issue here I think is that many people ended up 
> with pkcs11-provider installed because of a recommendation. We should remove 
> that recommendation, most users don’t need pcks11-provider installed.

I'm trying a setup right now, to understand what's happening.
wpa_supplicant does not need pkcs11-provider *at the moment*, because
it uses engine API for pkcs11 (and that is going to be a problem in
the future for EAP-TLS with pkcs11, if engine disappears from
openssl). However, it loads the legacy provider at startup, because
it's needed for MSCHAPv2 in the inner authentication.

-- 
davide

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