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

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

I've taken a look at the API for the key chain and I estimate that I'll 
have support done by the New Year.

There is a lot of documentation to read to make sure that I implement it 
correctly, but it looks doable.

-- Dave

On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 08:07  PM, David Ross wrote:

> 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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