Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group
RFC 9672, “Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group”, is an Informational document published in December 2024 by W. Kumari, D. Harkins. It updates RFC 8110. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
RFC 8110 describes Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE), a mode that allows unauthenticated clients to connect to a network using encrypted traffic. This document transfers the ongoing maintenance and further development of the protocol to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.
This document updates RFC 8110 by noting that future work on the protocol described therein will occur in the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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