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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] auth(2) auth_wep usage?
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:00:34 +0200
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> > I got the impression I have first to push a key
> > to factotum, after which auth_wep picks it up.
> > is there a more direct way to do it?
> > I could not find a libarary routine to push the key
> > to factotum in some programmatic way.
> 
> read /sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum/wep.c

I already had done so.

> factotum wep hands off the key directly to the
> ethernet card so as not to reveal the secret.

i see.  just curious, is there any particular reason it
only supports keys 1-3 and not 4? (adding is trivial)

> it doesn't sound like that's appropriate here
> so just write it directly yourself.

fully correct. turned out I already had the
control-fd to the card open...