wpa_supplicant: hostapd: Remove man-in-the-middle

Replace man-in-the-middle attacks with on-path attacks which
is gender-neutral and commonly used.

Signed-off-by: Arowa Suliman <arowa@chromium.org>

diff --git a/hostapd/hostapd.conf b/hostapd/hostapd.conf
index dbdd3d7fbfc23f86878771ff2b5c71b1d2e675f6..6b807f4894d984760dc654d210945e4fd25ade33 100644 (file)
--- a/hostapd/hostapd.conf
+++ b/hostapd/hostapd.conf
@@ -1837,7 +1837,7 @@ own_ip_addr=127.0.0.1
 #assoc_sa_query_retry_timeout=201
 
 # ocv: Operating Channel Validation
-# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel man-in-the-middle attacks.
+# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel on-path attacks.
 # Enabling this depends on the driver's support for OCV when the driver SME is
 # used. If hostapd SME is used, this will be enabled just based on this
 # configuration.

diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf b/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
index e3ae77114680181e3fd550ced0cf4d0ccea2290f..fa257f3dec1b205b26f7f83121f0dbe8350a98f8 100644 (file)
--- a/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ fast_reauth=1
 # WPA3-Personal-only mode: ieee80211w=2 and key_mgmt=SAE
 #
 # ocv: whether operating channel validation is enabled
-# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel man-in-the-middle attacks.
+# This is a countermeasure against multi-channel on-path attacks.
 # Enabling this automatically also enables ieee80211w, if not yet enabled.
 # 0 = disabled (default)
 # 1 = enabled if wpa_supplicant's SME in use. Otherwise enabled only when the