How to add new cryptographic functions?

Chuck Tuffli CTuffli
Mon Apr 7 12:42:06 PDT 2008


It sounds more like you want to modify a kernel driver instead of the
supplicant as this level of processing is either handled by the wireless
device or in software by the driver.
 
---chuck

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[mailto:hostap-bounces at lists.shmoo.com] On Behalf Of zhangxianshi
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 12:17 PM
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Subject: Re: How to add new cryptographic functions?


Actually, I want to modify the way of TKIP generating its RC4 seed. 
But unfortunately, I can not find how TKIP implemented in wpa.c. 
 
 
 
zhangxianshi


> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:12:47AM +0800, zhangxianshi wrote:
> 
>> I want to add new cryptographic functions into wpa_supplicant and
hostapd. 
>> What should I do?
>> Should I register them into some registration list like new EAP
methods?
> 
> Depends on what exactly you are adding.. "Cryptographic functions"
does
> not really tell much about what this would be used for. Can you please
> provide more detailed description on what you are trying to achieve
with
> these new functions?
> 
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> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id
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