Re: [PATCH 0/5] Allow specifying 802.1x password as raw byte array

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 16:36 -0800, Evan Broder wrote:
> Current implementations of MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2 interpret the
> password as being a string of 256 UCS-2 characters, meaning that they
> can technically be an arbitrary collection of any value between 0 and
> U+FFFF, including the code points between U+D800 and U+DFFF that were
> reserved in Unicode 2.0 for UTF-16 surrogate pairs.
> 
> Since D-Bus requires strings to be valid UTF-8 (and in fact enforces
> this), there is no way to pass passwords containing such invalid
> characters.
> 
> This patchset adds a new 8021x.password-raw field of type byte array,
> using it if the password field is unavailable.
> 
> Note that to be useful this requires commit c48183fca2d32cd4 from
> wpasupplicant in order to support non-ASCII passwords during the
> MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2 handshake.

Thanks again, all 5 pushed to git master.

Dan

>  libnm-util/libnm-util.ver                          |    2 +
>  libnm-util/nm-setting-8021x.c                      |   90 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  libnm-util/nm-setting-8021x.h                      |    4 +
>  src/settings/plugins/keyfile/reader.c              |   20 +++++
>  src/settings/plugins/keyfile/writer.c              |   28 ++++++
>  src/supplicant-manager/nm-supplicant-config.c      |   18 ++++-
>  .../nm-supplicant-settings-verify.c                |   27 ++++++-
>  .../nm-supplicant-settings-verify.h                |    1 +
>  8 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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