Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:14:27 -0400 From: Vance Shipley <vances@motivity.ca> To: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is encryption supported? Message-ID: <20050926081427.GA597@feeble.motivity.ca> In-Reply-To: <43374D24.7010701@savvis.net> References: <20050925225336.GA2110@feeble.motivity.ca> <43374D24.7010701@savvis.net>
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 06:21:40PM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: } } if i'm not mistaken, the specification says that encryption will be } enabled if connection authentication enabled as well, so you need } } # hccontrol -n ubt0hci write_authentication_enable 1 } # hccontrol -n ubt0hci write_encryption_mode 1 Max, Thanks, that did the trick. } link authentication and encryption is really silly (kinda like WEP). if } you really want encryption you should not use bluetooth. i'm not even } sure why your application insists on it. bluetooth connections usually The author of gnubox put a dialog up to choose whether or not to enable encryption however on the Nokia 6620 port of the code it didn't work and it only gave you an "Ok" choice. This was a known bug. Having pointed out on his online forum that this otherwise innocuous bug was causing me a problem with FreeBSD a new version was made available to me just now which now correctly provides a "Yes" and "No" choice and works as expected. So now I can have it either way. I like it when a plan comes together. :) -Vance
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