Re: The 802.15.4 Security Layer

[Simon Vincent <simon.vincent@xsilon.com>]

Hi,

On 18/06/15 16:42, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 18/06/15 14:31, Alexander Aring wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I saw the latest discussion about the security layer and wants to open a
>> new thread about discussion for access this layer over nl802154 and
>> putting a "very easy to use" functionality into iwpan.
>>
>> I need to admit, I never tested myself this layer, also I told many
>> times that the step to put security layer functionality into nl802154 is
>> a necessary step. For that reason I declare the security layer as 
>> broken.
>>
>> Several months ago I started to put these functionality into wpan-tools
>> and nl802154. It's just parsing a file at the moment and putting the all
>> relevant entries for key, device, seclevel tables in cfg802154. Nothing
>> more. These tables are handled like an ACL in 802.15.4 (so far I know)
>> and necessary to do the "key lookup" procedure, on receiving decrypted
>> frames.
>>
>> At weekend I will try to provide my stuff which I already have done and
>> will try to explain what the idea for the next necessary steps are. It's
>> just to start a discussion "How do deal with accessing llsec over
>> nl802154/cfg802154".
>>
>> After we can accessing the sec layer over nl802154, we can hopefully 
>> remove
>> the old interface stuff.
>>
>> Does this sounds like a plan?
>
> I think this is a good idea and I would gladly gve this some testing 
> next week. I bet Simon would do as well as he is currently looking 
> into it.
Yes it would nice to tidy this all up and get a stable interface. I 
currently have some time to look at this and do some testing.

- Simon