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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:30:23 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
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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> 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
factotum wep hands off the key directly to the
ethernet card so as not to reveal the secret.
it doesn't sound like that's appropriate here
so just write it directly yourself.

russ