[Wirelessdriver-devel] Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] WEP Functionality

[David R. <n1...@ma...>]

I'm thinking that if the api is understandable enough that I'll move all 
password storage into the keychain.
Though this has one downside - if I make a command line tool to allow 
manipulation of the driver or just to init it, there would be no way to 
access the keychain before you logged in (as far as I know) and it would 
make the commandline tool darwin incompatible.

I'll take a look into this, this weekend and get back to you on Sunday 
on how long it will take me to get this done.

-- Dave


On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 07:55  PM, Curtis Laser wrote:

> The 128 bit network is driven by HP branded Lucent Access Points that 
> are
> stuffed with Orinoco Gold cards.
>
> As I remember the keychain API you pass in something like an account or 
> URL
> and you get the password for it back. The network could obviously be the
> "account". The only limitation would be one password per network but 
> that
> doesn't seem all that restrictive. A big benefit of using the API is 
> that
> the passwords are stored in an encrypted file.
>
> Curtis
>
>
> on 12/14/01 5:31 PM, yuriwho at yu...@ma... wrote:
>
>> Curtis,
>>
>> Interesting that the Orinoco Gold cards appear to be different
>> from the WaveLAN gold cards. What type of access point is driving your
>> 128 bit network?
>>
>> As far as keychain support for the prefpane is concerned, that
>> is an interesting idea. I know that Dave was planning to implement a
>> mechanism for saving passwords to a pref file (or pw file) but I don't
>> know if he has considered keychain support. Do you think it would work
>> well with saving multiple networks and passwords? If so, perhaps you 
>> and
>> dave should discuss it. Please post any future development discussion 
>> to
>> the devel list.
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback & interest in helping,
>>
>> Y
>>
>> On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 12:24 PM, Curtis Laser wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am running Mac OS X 10.1.1 (build 5M28). Version 1.1.0 of
>>> IOPCCardFamily.kext and version 1.0.1b2 of WirelessDriver.kext.
>>>
>>> I connect to both a 128 bit and 40 bit encrypted networks. I have
>>> tried a number of cards with this version of the software.
>>>
>>> Using an Orinoco Gold card I can connect to the 128 bit encrypted
>>> network, but not to the 40 bit encrypted network. The WEP key for the
>>> 128 bit network is a simple hex representation of the ASCII characters
>>> in the key. I tried both this approach and getting the key from
>>> Airport Config's utility with the 40 bit network and neither worked.
>>>
>>> I thought I might be doing something wrong, so I tried a Silver card
>>> (HP branded but essentially a silver Orinoco card) and this was able
>>> to connect to the 40 bit network (using the key from Airport Config)
>>> without problems. I suspect that there is a problem for Orinoco Gold
>>> cards accessing a 40 bit encrypted network.
>>>
>>> I can also confirm that I could connect to neither network using a
>>> WaveLAN gold card.
>>>
>>> I have considered adding Keychain support to the Wireless Config
>>> panel, but before I start mucking with the code I wanted to know how
>>> much turmoil that part of the code is currently experiencing, I
>>> wouldn't want to step on your toes.
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your hard work!
>>> Curtis Laser
>>>
>>
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