Re: WEP-key format

[Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:36 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:30 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I am writing a simple Python client (or module) which would create a new
> > > wireless connection via NM D-Bus Interface. I have no problems with
> > > uprotected networks and also with WPA protected networks. But I cannot
> > > make it working with WEP. According to /var/log/messages there is a
> > > problem with WEP key:
> > > ifcfg-rh:
> > > parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-anaconda_wifi_test4 ... 
> > > ifcfg-rh:     error: Invalid WEP key length.
> > > 
> > > According to
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list gnome org/msg07935.html
> > > I repeat characters of passphrase to have 64 chars and then I use md5
> > > hex digest.
> > > e.g.:
> > > passphrase: 'abcde'
> > > repeated:
> > > 'abcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcd'
> > > 
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> > Sorry, I accidentaly hit CTLR+ENTER instead of ENTER. So here is the
> > rest:
> > hexdigest: '04e49e18f78a0111df976d1a5a348651'
> > 
> > Is it possible to use this way or is there another way to be used for
> > getting a wep-key0 for the Connection.Settings dictionary?
> 
> If you have a passphrase, you can send the passphrase as it is, and NM
> will do the hashing.  But to ensure that the hashing is done correctly,
> set the "wep-key-type" item appropriately.  See the following for more
> details of that item:
> 
> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
Thanks a lot for the link. Reading the page solved my problem and
probably many more that would otherwise occur in future. What is weird
is that I haven't come accross this page while "attacking google".

Vrata Podzimek