* Help understanding Agent 'capabilities'.
@ 2011-10-13 5:55 NeilBrown
2011-10-13 7:39 ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2011-10-13 7:48 ` Johan Hedberg
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From: NeilBrown @ 2011-10-13 5:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-bluetooth
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Hi,
I've been trying enhance my understanding of bluetooth and as part of that
I have been experimenting with simple-agent to create pairing between two
Linux hosts (a phone and a laptop as it happens).
My understanding of Secure Simple Pairing is that there are a number of
authentication mechanism and that the "best" would be chosen based on the
that capabilities given to the agent.
So if both devices tell the monitor "DisplayYesNo", it would not be able to
do Passkey entry and would choose Numeric comparison.
So both agents would get RequestConfirmation call backs.
But I cannot make that happen.
No matter what capability I give to simple-agent, one of them asks me for a
pass key, then the other one does, and they have to match. i.e. they both
get RequestPinCode.
So they seem to be assuming at least one device has a keyboard (the first
could generate a number in the agent and display it I guess).
Is there something else I have to change to force it to use Numeric
comparison (or even 'just works') authentication? Is this documented
somewhere?
I'm using 4.88 on one system and 4.96 on the other.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
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* Re: Help understanding Agent 'capabilities'.
2011-10-13 5:55 Help understanding Agent 'capabilities' NeilBrown
@ 2011-10-13 7:39 ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2011-10-13 11:14 ` NeilBrown
2011-10-13 7:48 ` Johan Hedberg
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From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz @ 2011-10-13 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: NeilBrown; +Cc: linux-bluetooth
Hi Neil,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:55 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been trying enhance my understanding of bluetooth and as part of that
> I have been experimenting with simple-agent to create pairing between two
> Linux hosts (a phone and a laptop as it happens).
>
> My understanding of Secure Simple Pairing is that there are a number of
> authentication mechanism and that the "best" would be chosen based on the
> that capabilities given to the agent.
>
> So if both devices tell the monitor "DisplayYesNo", it would not be able to
> do Passkey entry and would choose Numeric comparison.
> So both agents would get RequestConfirmation call backs.
>
> But I cannot make that happen.
>
> No matter what capability I give to simple-agent, one of them asks me for a
> pass key, then the other one does, and they have to match. i.e. they both
> get RequestPinCode.
> So they seem to be assuming at least one device has a keyboard (the first
> could generate a number in the agent and display it I guess).
>
> Is there something else I have to change to force it to use Numeric
> comparison (or even 'just works') authentication? Is this documented
> somewhere?
>
> I'm using 4.88 on one system and 4.96 on the other.
For SSP you need both controllers to be >= 2.1, if you are seeing
pincode requests then probably one or both controller are using legacy
pairing.
--
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
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* Re: Help understanding Agent 'capabilities'.
2011-10-13 7:39 ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
@ 2011-10-13 11:14 ` NeilBrown
2011-10-13 11:28 ` Johan Hedberg
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From: NeilBrown @ 2011-10-13 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Luiz Augusto von Dentz; +Cc: linux-bluetooth
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:39:22 +0300 Luiz Augusto von Dentz
<luiz.dentz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:55 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been trying enhance my understanding of bluetooth and as part of that
> > I have been experimenting with simple-agent to create pairing between two
> > Linux hosts (a phone and a laptop as it happens).
> >
> > My understanding of Secure Simple Pairing is that there are a number of
> > authentication mechanism and that the "best" would be chosen based on the
> > that capabilities given to the agent.
> >
> > So if both devices tell the monitor "DisplayYesNo", it would not be able to
> > do Passkey entry and would choose Numeric comparison.
> > So both agents would get RequestConfirmation call backs.
> >
> > But I cannot make that happen.
> >
> > No matter what capability I give to simple-agent, one of them asks me for a
> > pass key, then the other one does, and they have to match. i.e. they both
> > get RequestPinCode.
> > So they seem to be assuming at least one device has a keyboard (the first
> > could generate a number in the agent and display it I guess).
> >
> > Is there something else I have to change to force it to use Numeric
> > comparison (or even 'just works') authentication? Is this documented
> > somewhere?
> >
> > I'm using 4.88 on one system and 4.96 on the other.
>
> For SSP you need both controllers to be >= 2.1, if you are seeing
> pincode requests then probably one or both controller are using legacy
> pairing.
>
Thanks. That does explain it.
I knew about that but must have been confusing 'pass code' and 'pin code' in
my mind and so thought it didn't look like the legacy version.
What is the easiest way to find out what bluetooth version the controller is
using? I tried looking around and didn't find anything obvious.
Or is the LegacyPairing property the best hint?
Thanks again (and to Johan).
NeilBrown
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* Re: Help understanding Agent 'capabilities'.
2011-10-13 5:55 Help understanding Agent 'capabilities' NeilBrown
2011-10-13 7:39 ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
@ 2011-10-13 7:48 ` Johan Hedberg
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From: Johan Hedberg @ 2011-10-13 7:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: NeilBrown; +Cc: linux-bluetooth
Hi Neil,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011, NeilBrown wrote:
> I've been trying enhance my understanding of bluetooth and as part of that
> I have been experimenting with simple-agent to create pairing between two
> Linux hosts (a phone and a laptop as it happens).
>
> My understanding of Secure Simple Pairing is that there are a number of
> authentication mechanism and that the "best" would be chosen based on the
> that capabilities given to the agent.
>
> So if both devices tell the monitor "DisplayYesNo", it would not be able to
> do Passkey entry and would choose Numeric comparison.
> So both agents would get RequestConfirmation call backs.
>
> But I cannot make that happen.
>
> No matter what capability I give to simple-agent, one of them asks me for a
> pass key, then the other one does, and they have to match. i.e. they both
> get RequestPinCode.
If you get RequestPinCode it means that at least one of the devices
isn't capable of SSP, i.e. is a pre-2.1 Bluetooth controller. In such
cases the IO capability is irrelevant (as the concept doesn't exist for
2.0 and older devices).
Johan
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