[confirmation] config param set by default is not what is listed as an available option

[maximlomans]

Going through the config file i came across a setting which puzzles me somewhat, i don't think i set it myself and forgot about it either, so it must be a default active setting either inherited from the patch or was set as a hostapd default conf..I'm talking about
# IEEE 802.11 specifies two authentication algorithms. hostapd can be
# configured to allow both of these or only one. Open system authentication
# should be used with IEEE 802.1X.
# Bit fields of allowed authentication algorithms:
# bit 0 = Open System Authentication
# bit 1 = Shared Key Authentication (requires WEP)
auth_algs=3 < ?

thanks ahead for any clarification
live long & prosper ./..

[maximlomans]

i know wifi auth algs wpa wep etc have the 3'rd for both versions of wpa auth option but i wasn't sure it matched the context of the block with bit 0 - 1 being described
IBM:
""auth_algs=1 allows only WPA2 authentication algorithms. 2 is WEP. Never ever use WEP (wired equivalent privacy) because it has been thoroughly broken for years, and is trivially easy to crack. 3 allows both.
wpa=2 allows only WPA2. 1 is WPA1, and 3 allows both.
wpa_psk_file points to the file containing the shared keys.""

i'm closing the issue but i still don't know what exactly meant by bit 0 - 1
hate to win the title of 'nag of the month'
but this as far as this post'll go
sure you can still prosper
all of yous can
the whole 7.2billion ;)