Bug 191879

Summary:	WPA keys cannot be entered in hex
Product:	[Unmaintained] Network Management	Reporter:	Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler>
Component:	Control Module	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bitdealer
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Kevin Kofler 2009-05-07 09:01:07 UTC

Version:           revision 963263 (using KDE 4.2.2)
Compiler:          g++ 4.3.2 Fedora 10 gcc-4.3.2-7
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

The WPA key input only accepts a passphrase. Trying to enter a hex key makes it fail to connect. Particularly annoying if you're trying to copy the settings from the KDE 3 knetworkmanager, which stores the keys in hex only (and throws away the original passphrase).

Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2009-07-25 23:04:53 UTC

SVN commit 1002392 by wstephens:

Start of work to make it possible to enter hashed PSKs or passphrases
for WPA auth.  I am unable to test it because I don't have a new enough
NM installed.  If you want to test it, fix the #if in hashWpaPsk() in
networkmanager/backends/NetworkManager/settings/802-11-wireless-securitydbus.cpp
and rm CMakeCache.txt to ensure cmake knows you have NM 0.7.1 installed
- this test is insufficient since not all 0.7.1s have this feature.

CCBUG: 191879


 M  +5 -1      CMakeLists.txt  
 D             backends/NetworkManager/config-knmstorage.h.cmake  
 A             backends/NetworkManager/config-nm07backend.h.cmake   backends/NetworkManager/config-knmstorage.h.cmake#1002314
 M  +13 -4     backends/NetworkManager/settings/802-11-wireless-securitydbus.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002392

Comment 2 Will Stephenson 2009-07-26 17:25:37 UTC

SVN commit 1002623 by wstephens:

Allow WPA-PSK connections to enter PSKs as well as passphrases.

Accept secrets of between 8 and 63 printable ascii chars as passphrases
to be hashed, and send 64 hex char PSKs through as-is.

Turns out this is the Right way.

BUG: 191879



 M  +9 -2      802-11-wireless-securitydbus.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002623