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diff --git a/share/man/man4/wlan_gcmp.4 b/share/man/man4/wlan_gcmp.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a7657a9ad91b --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/wlan_gcmp.4 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Sam Leffler +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" Copyright (c) 2025 The FreeBSD Foundation +.\" +.\" Portions of this documentation were written by Bj\xc3\xb6rn Zeeb +.\" under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" Based on wlan_ccmp.4. +.\" +.Dd June 13, 2025 +.Dt WLAN_GCMP 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm wlan_gcmp +.Nd AES-GCMP crypto support for 802.11 devices +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "device wlan_gcmp" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +module handles the +.Em Galois/Counter Mode Protocol +cryptographic requirements of the IEEE 802.11ad and WPA2/WPA3 protocols. +It does encapsulation and decapsulation of GCMP-encoded 802.11 frames +and optionally calculates the AES-GCMP cipher. +The +.Nm +module is an 802.11 cryptographic plugin module for use by the +.Xr wlan 4 +module. +This module is automatically loaded if an AES-GCMP key is configured; +typically by a WPA supplicant program such as wpa_supplicant, +or a WPA authenticator program such as +.Nm hostapd . +Should the underlying network device not be capable of doing the AES-GCMP +calculations in hardware, the +.Nm +module will do the work. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr wlan 4 , +.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , +.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , +.Xr wlan_wep 4 +.Sh STANDARDS +More information can be found in the IEEE 802.11, and WPA Standards. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 15.0 . |