From: gavron@wetwork.net
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Enable quantum cryptography support
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:34:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F2720F.7030306@wetwork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804011613.06749.mb@bu3sch.de>
I tried this patch against the 3.6 tree and I was unable to get it to
compile.
It kept saying my version of gcc is too old.
Is it my SPROM?
Ehud
gcc version 5.1.2 20090401 (Red Hat 5.1.2-33)
Michael Buesch wrote:
> This patch enables support for quantum cryptography on latest b43 devices.
> The quantum cryptography algorithm is 100% backward compatible with the
> standard CCMP algorithm, so no additional changes to the mac80211 stack
> are needed. While staying compatible, it makes the unbreakable(!) WLAN connection
> possible. Of course, that's only the case, if both ends use b43-qcrypto.
> In the case where one STA uses legacy encryption, the card will automatically
> detect this and switch back to plain old CCMP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
>
> ---
>
> John, please queue this patch for linux-3.6.26
>
>
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h 2008-03-22 15:44:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h 2008-04-01 15:53:40.000000000 +0200
> @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ enum {
> #define B43_HF_ANTSELMODE 0x000200000000ULL /* Antenna selection mode (rev >= 13 only) */
> #define B43_HF_MLADVW 0x001000000000ULL /* N PHY ML ADV workaround (rev >= 13 only) */
> #define B43_HF_PR45960W 0x080000000000ULL /* PR 45960 workaround (rev >= 13 only) */
> +#define B43_HF_QUANTUMCRYPT 0x100000000000ULL /* Enable quantum cryptography in firmware. */
>
> /* MacFilter offsets. */
> #define B43_MACFILTER_SELF 0x0000
> @@ -439,6 +440,7 @@ enum {
> B43_SEC_ALGO_AES,
> B43_SEC_ALGO_WEP104,
> B43_SEC_ALGO_AES_LEGACY,
> + B43_SEC_ALGO_QUANTUM,
> };
>
> struct b43_dmaring;
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-03-27 17:11:38.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-04-01 15:53:41.000000000 +0200
> @@ -3215,6 +3215,13 @@ static int b43_op_set_key(struct ieee802
> break;
> case ALG_CCMP:
> algorithm = B43_SEC_ALGO_AES;
> + if (dev->dev->id.revision >= 20080401) {
> + /* Latest devices can do quantum cryptography
> + * to encrypt/decrypt the data stream.
> + * This is 100% backward compatible with the traditional
> + * CCMP algorithm. */
> + algorithm = B43_SEC_ALGO_QUANTUM;
> + }
> break;
> default:
> B43_WARN_ON(1);
> @@ -3254,6 +3261,10 @@ static int b43_op_set_key(struct ieee802
> b43_hf_write(dev,
> b43_hf_read(dev) & ~B43_HF_USEDEFKEYS);
> }
> + if (algorithm == B43_SEC_ALGO_QUANTUM) {
> + b43_hf_write(dev, b43_hf_read(dev)
> + | B43_HF_QUANTUMCRYPT);
> + }
> key->flags |= IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_IV;
> break;
> case DISABLE_KEY: {
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-01 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 14:13 [PATCH] b43: Enable quantum cryptography support Michael Buesch
2008-04-01 14:50 ` Mark Hagger
2008-04-01 14:56 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-04-01 15:14 ` Michael Buesch
2008-04-01 17:34 ` gavron [this message]
2008-04-01 17:48 ` Stefanik Gábor
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